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I've just developed a business plan for the African market which tried a mixed WiMAX /Wifi model. It doesn't really stack up, even there - there would have to be so many wi-fi distribution points, because of the lower coverage area, that the capital…
I still think the early WiMax play in the US would be point to multipoint. At the multi-point WiMax would feed WiFi initially. There are already hundreds of thousands of WiFi enabled devices and in some markets it may be more cost effective to deliv…
Thanks for the information Alan. I think costs may be the least of their worries as they've swallowed bigger sums before. Cannibalisation of revenue streams and lack of handsets (so lack of uptake to pay for the rollout) are going to put the first d…
This is a repost of an earlier comment:
Top carriers face high costs migrating to LTE
Mobile operators around the world face high costs to migrate to LTE, with a tier one US operator looking at expenditure of up to $1.78bn in the first year.
The f…
I don't believe we;ll see mobile LTE take hold till 2012 at the earliest. European operators are skeptical and have regulatory/ tax issues to deal with before they can deploy LTE. VZW and NTT DoComo might be first to deploy LTE, followed by Vodafone…
Great job, Tom!
Thanks Alan, I've just posted on why LTE is likely to be delayed. The damage to LTE depends on the services that WiMAX operators offer that provide long-term competitive advantage and lock customers in long term, and I've got a blog post coming on t…
Tom, I hope you are correct in your assessment that "WiMAX has the potential to severely damage the business case for LTE in all markets."
My take is that LTE -especially mobile LTE- is going to be delayed and cost much more to deploy than people t…
3GPP is necessary for mobile networks because of the need to interconnect services on legacy infrastructures (GSM and UMTS/CDMA). WiMAX is an IP-only network so for most services it will work exactly the same as any fixed broadband network, which ex…
Why do you think the spectrum worth so much for LTE and not for mobile WiMAX, when there is absolutely no usable differences between LTE and 802.16e - except that WiMAX is available 3 to 5 years before LTE? Just on the forgone profits of waiting for…
The mobile operators face several huge problems with LTE that will prevent major rollouts any time soon. For a long time, until all handsets come with LTE capability, LTE must remain an overlay network to the existing 3G and GSM/CDMA networks. It wi…
Profile Information
- Interests
- Business strategy, WiMAX
- About Me
- Strategist and business developer.
Co-founder and ex- Business Development Director of Urban Wimax, a fixed wireless access operator in London.
- Current Company
- Assure Continuity Ltd
- Company Description
- Provides both online data backup and fast server restoration. The service allows for a Recovery Time objective of as little as 20 minutes and a Recovery Point objective of as little as 15 minutes before the disaster. The recovery service can be tested at any time.
- Current Position
- Director
- Areas of Expertise
- Competitive advantage, market analysis, market opportunities and strategies for technological innovation.
- Country of Residence
- UK
- City
- High Wycombe
- Why are you interested in WiMAX?
- Involved in the industry as a consultant.
- Do you use WiMAX service?
- No
- Who is your WiMAX Service provider? (if applicable)
- NA
Tom Foale's Blog
There are good reasons for LTE to be late
The mobile operators are likely to delay LTE, despite the noise about rollouts and the hype by vendors and operators alike. This blog post, , gives the primary reasons why LTE is likely to be late, the most important one being cannibalisation of the main sources of excess profits, international calls and fixed-mobile interconnect, by VoIP services. Oh, and for anyone that believes VoIP can be blocked or isn't good enough - it can't be bloc… Continue
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 12:50am — 3 Comments
Why Mobile WiMAX can succeed in mature mobile markets
Mobile WiMAX has a short window in which to beat LTE-focussed operators to the most profitable markets for higher bandwidths. This blog uses the theory of disruptive innovation (even though neither WiMAX nor LTE is disruptive) to explain why. There's two parts, a summary at Summary: Why Mobile WiMAX can succeed in mature mobile markets, and a longer post with all of the theory at Why Mob… Continue
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 2:57am — 5 Comments
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 10:25pm on September 8, 2009,
Gibran Soto said…
- Hello Tom,
The reason i ask you if there are any drawbacks with 3.65 is because i herd some talk that when using this frequency the service is restricted to Line of Sight and cannot penetrate building much. Is this true?
- At 6:33pm on September 3, 2009,
Gibran Soto said…
- Hello, My name is Gibran Soto im currently in the works of Creating a small Wimax Service provider in the college town Champaign/Urbana IL, USA. I'm having some troubles planning deployment. Im thinking about utilizing the 3.65 ghz Spectrum. are there any major drawbacks?
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