EETimes: Samsung used it’s second annual Mobile Summit in New York City today to lay it’s stake in the ground on the future of wireless, and it is mobile WiMAX, based on the IEEE 802.16e standard.”4G is WiMAX. We’re very clear about that,” said Philip Garrison, mobile strategist for Samsung Telecommunications America (STA). (…)
The benefits of mobile WiMAX were outlined by Tom Jasny, vice president of wireless broadband networks. They include time to market, greater throughput, low latency, multimedia centric, greater broadcast capacity at 2 Mbits/s per user, vehicular mobility at up to 75 mph and broad global support with over 380 companies in the WiMAX Forum. (…)
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