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Sprint and Wimax... killer stuff
Sprint showed off the capabilities of its Xohm WiMax technology this week, demonstrating its capabilities to a boatload -- literally, they were on a boat -- of journalists and others. The technology was impressive and consistent, according to reports. Sprint hopes to beta test Xohm later this year in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington.
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A demonstration by Motorola (NYSE: MOT) of Sprint's (NYSE: S) Xohm WiMax wireless broadband technology took place this week on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Accounts of the exhibition are likely to have DSL and cable Internet providers worried.
Journalists invited aboard the "Summer of George" filed generally upbeat reports about the on-deck performance of Xohm, which came after Motorola demonstrated that WiMax worked well on a Chicago train and in a fast-moving car. The exhibitions were part of the WiMax World USA Conference & Expo in Chicago.
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Howard Wolinsky wrote an account of a tablet notebook used in the demonstration display a CNN broadcast "without a hiccup."
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Just a Glimpse
Motorola has made "tremendous progress in the deployment" of a Xohm WiMax network in Chicago, one of six places in the U.S. where Motorola is building network infrastructure to support Xohm, said Barry West, president of Sprint's Xohm Business Unit. The live demonstrations "provided just a glimpse of what WiMax technology can deliver," he said.
Sprint is on schedule to begin beta testing Xohm service in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington by the end of the year, according to West. The service should be available to customers in Chicago and other markets come springtime.
Sprint believes it is gathering momentum for Xohm. It expects to be able to offer -- in conjunction with a planned partnership with Clearwire -- WiMax broadband to 100 million Americans by the end of 2008.
The Gadgets are Coming
Key to the initiative success is bringing aboard device manufacturers willing to embed WiMax in their products.
So far, computer makers Acer, Asus, Lenovo , Panasonic and Toshiba have expressed intent to do so with their 2008 Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Centrino-based laptops and ultra mobile PCs, according to Sprint.
Soon-to-be-released Nokia (NYSE: NOK) tablet devices will come equipped with Intel WiMax silicon, and will be among the first WiMax-enabled Internet devices expected to ship in 2008. Additionally, Motorola has created a mobile WiMax chipset modem for handheld units.
Sprint estimates about 50 million WiMax-enabled devices will be available within three years.
Nurturing the Ecosystem
The real news this year is the devices that are finally becoming available, said Parks Associates analyst Michael Cai, who has attended WiMax demos for the past five years.
"People have had questions about whether the ecosystem is going to meet the Sprint deadlines," Cai told TechNewsWorld. "Because Sprint is the high-profile, 800-pound gorilla from the carrier side, they have every incentive to make the ecosystem partners work together to meet their deadlines. It seems that is happening."
Sprint hopes to snag the mobile broadband market through aggressive pricing of Xohm.
"Sprint's vision is to cut the current mobile broadband price by at least half," Cai said. That means it will try to sell WiMax subscriptions that will work with multiple devices for US$30 to $40 per month, he predicted.
The pricing scheme will be tailored around individual needs, and Sprint said it will not lock subscribers into buying multi-year plans for each mobile unit they use.
Up to Speed
While WiMax is capable of delivering data at up to 10 megabits per second, the speed is impacted by the number of users. Cai said the technology is likely to offer speed of 1 to 2 megabits per second, good enough for most voice and Internet use.
Sprint "is expecting some DSL subscribers will be cutting the cord and solely relying on broadband connectivity" once Xohm goes live, Cai said. A WiMax wireless modem could be used for household installations.
Businesses and home users who require super high-speed broadband will stick with cable, fiber or newer, higher-speed DSL. "If you are a subscriber who thinks you need a 20-meg broadband connection, obviously you won't switch," said Cai
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A demonstration by Motorola (NYSE: MOT) of Sprint's (NYSE: S) Xohm WiMax wireless broadband technology took place this week on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Accounts of the exhibition are likely to have DSL and cable Internet providers worried.
Journalists invited aboard the "Summer of George" filed generally upbeat reports about the on-deck performance of Xohm, which came after Motorola demonstrated that WiMax worked well on a Chicago train and in a fast-moving car. The exhibitions were part of the WiMax World USA Conference & Expo in Chicago.
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Howard Wolinsky wrote an account of a tablet notebook used in the demonstration display a CNN broadcast "without a hiccup."
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Just a Glimpse
Motorola has made "tremendous progress in the deployment" of a Xohm WiMax network in Chicago, one of six places in the U.S. where Motorola is building network infrastructure to support Xohm, said Barry West, president of Sprint's Xohm Business Unit. The live demonstrations "provided just a glimpse of what WiMax technology can deliver," he said.
Sprint is on schedule to begin beta testing Xohm service in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington by the end of the year, according to West. The service should be available to customers in Chicago and other markets come springtime.
Sprint believes it is gathering momentum for Xohm. It expects to be able to offer -- in conjunction with a planned partnership with Clearwire -- WiMax broadband to 100 million Americans by the end of 2008.
The Gadgets are Coming
Key to the initiative success is bringing aboard device manufacturers willing to embed WiMax in their products.
So far, computer makers Acer, Asus, Lenovo , Panasonic and Toshiba have expressed intent to do so with their 2008 Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Centrino-based laptops and ultra mobile PCs, according to Sprint.
Soon-to-be-released Nokia (NYSE: NOK) tablet devices will come equipped with Intel WiMax silicon, and will be among the first WiMax-enabled Internet devices expected to ship in 2008. Additionally, Motorola has created a mobile WiMax chipset modem for handheld units.
Sprint estimates about 50 million WiMax-enabled devices will be available within three years.
Nurturing the Ecosystem
The real news this year is the devices that are finally becoming available, said Parks Associates analyst Michael Cai, who has attended WiMax demos for the past five years.
"People have had questions about whether the ecosystem is going to meet the Sprint deadlines," Cai told TechNewsWorld. "Because Sprint is the high-profile, 800-pound gorilla from the carrier side, they have every incentive to make the ecosystem partners work together to meet their deadlines. It seems that is happening."
Sprint hopes to snag the mobile broadband market through aggressive pricing of Xohm.
"Sprint's vision is to cut the current mobile broadband price by at least half," Cai said. That means it will try to sell WiMax subscriptions that will work with multiple devices for US$30 to $40 per month, he predicted.
The pricing scheme will be tailored around individual needs, and Sprint said it will not lock subscribers into buying multi-year plans for each mobile unit they use.
Up to Speed
While WiMax is capable of delivering data at up to 10 megabits per second, the speed is impacted by the number of users. Cai said the technology is likely to offer speed of 1 to 2 megabits per second, good enough for most voice and Internet use.
Sprint "is expecting some DSL subscribers will be cutting the cord and solely relying on broadband connectivity" once Xohm goes live, Cai said. A WiMax wireless modem could be used for household installations.
Businesses and home users who require super high-speed broadband will stick with cable, fiber or newer, higher-speed DSL. "If you are a subscriber who thinks you need a 20-meg broadband connection, obviously you won't switch," said Cai
Blackberry Devices getting Slingbox...
Against all odds, it seems that Sling Media and RIM have listened to the cries of disenfranchised Slingbox users everywhere. Word on the street is that RIM and Sling are currently working together to bring a version of Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile client to the BlackBerry operating system. Yes! There are very few specifics available as of yet, but we’d be hard pressed to imagine this coming to anything but EV-DO and Wi-Fi equipped ‘Berrys. Given the increasing prevalence of Wi-Fi in RIM’s recent handset offerings, this should prove to be a huge hurdle, but anyone with a lowly EDGE-equipped BlackBerry shouldn’t hold their breath. That said, we’re still overjoyed at this announcement. BG had told me Sling was always working on a client, and now it looks like it might be come a reality pretty soon. Bring it on, Sling. We’re waiting.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
AT&T To Roll Out HSUPA Network Upgrade - Data Device - News - WirelessInfo.com - Cell Phone Reviews and Wireless Plan Ratings
Stellar Stuff...!!
AT*T to soon dominate...
AT&T To Roll Out HSUPA Network Upgrade - Data Device - News - WirelessInfo.com - Cell Phone Reviews and Wireless Plan Ratings
AT&T To Roll Out HSUPA Network Upgrade
Richard BaguleyPublished on September 25, 2007
25th Sept 07 – AT&T are planning an upgrade to their network which will make uploading images and files from cellphones faster. At the moment, cell phones using their HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) network can only send information at around 130 kilobits per second. But they are now rolling out an upgrade to their network that will enable HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access), which will increase upload speeds to 5-800 kilobits per second.Although this upgrade won't affect web browsing speed, it will be a big boost for those who send large amounts of data, such as photos and videos from cell phones or laptops with cellular modems, providing up to a 6 times increase in the speed at which data can be sent to the Internet. This would make a huge difference for users such as video bloggers or journalists who rely on cellular connections to send files remotely. The upgrade was revealed in an interview that AT&T's president Richard Burns did with Reuters, where he claimed that the upgrade will be rolled out in October and November of this year. "Everybody in the street is becoming a reporter so the desire to be able to upload is growing," Burns told Reuters. "That's become a much bigger part of consumer demand than it was just a few years ago."However, you shouldn't start planning what to do with the extra bandwidth quite yet: to get the speed increase you will need a HSUPA compatible device, and they aren't available at the moment. AT&T says that the first HSUPA devices we will see will be data cards for laptops that will be coming in the next few weeks, but they wouldn't give any dates on the availability of HSUPA handsets. It also isn't clear if existing HSDPA devices can be updated to the higher upload speeds. Burns also revealed that AT&T expects that their 3G networks will cover 200 markets and 170 million people by the end of 2007, but that they won't have 3G coverage of their entire network by the end of 2008; many users will have to reply on slower data connection such as EDGE that run on their existing network.
AT*T to soon dominate...
AT&T To Roll Out HSUPA Network Upgrade - Data Device - News - WirelessInfo.com - Cell Phone Reviews and Wireless Plan Ratings
AT&T To Roll Out HSUPA Network Upgrade
Richard BaguleyPublished on September 25, 2007
25th Sept 07 – AT&T are planning an upgrade to their network which will make uploading images and files from cellphones faster. At the moment, cell phones using their HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) network can only send information at around 130 kilobits per second. But they are now rolling out an upgrade to their network that will enable HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access), which will increase upload speeds to 5-800 kilobits per second.Although this upgrade won't affect web browsing speed, it will be a big boost for those who send large amounts of data, such as photos and videos from cell phones or laptops with cellular modems, providing up to a 6 times increase in the speed at which data can be sent to the Internet. This would make a huge difference for users such as video bloggers or journalists who rely on cellular connections to send files remotely. The upgrade was revealed in an interview that AT&T's president Richard Burns did with Reuters, where he claimed that the upgrade will be rolled out in October and November of this year. "Everybody in the street is becoming a reporter so the desire to be able to upload is growing," Burns told Reuters. "That's become a much bigger part of consumer demand than it was just a few years ago."However, you shouldn't start planning what to do with the extra bandwidth quite yet: to get the speed increase you will need a HSUPA compatible device, and they aren't available at the moment. AT&T says that the first HSUPA devices we will see will be data cards for laptops that will be coming in the next few weeks, but they wouldn't give any dates on the availability of HSUPA handsets. It also isn't clear if existing HSDPA devices can be updated to the higher upload speeds. Burns also revealed that AT&T expects that their 3G networks will cover 200 markets and 170 million people by the end of 2007, but that they won't have 3G coverage of their entire network by the end of 2008; many users will have to reply on slower data connection such as EDGE that run on their existing network.
For those looking at what 3G is...
So, as you know, I'm going to be getting back into the blogosphere...
Here's a great start... as I'm trying to get caught all back up in the wireless world of data... a great read on 3G technology. The times of 100 mbps down and 50 mbps up are among us... when we may see and feel this? Try 2009... look out AT*T, Verizon and comcast
3G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, after 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, "IMT-2000". 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment.
Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
In December 2005, 100 3G networks were operating in 40 countries, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association. In Asia, Europe, Canada and the USA, telecommunication companies use W-CDMA technology with the support of around 100 terminal designs to operate 3G mobile networks.
Here's a great start... as I'm trying to get caught all back up in the wireless world of data... a great read on 3G technology. The times of 100 mbps down and 50 mbps up are among us... when we may see and feel this? Try 2009... look out AT*T, Verizon and comcast
3G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, after 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, "IMT-2000". 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment.
Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
In December 2005, 100 3G networks were operating in 40 countries, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association. In Asia, Europe, Canada and the USA, telecommunication companies use W-CDMA technology with the support of around 100 terminal designs to operate 3G mobile networks.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Microsoft's "Argo" / Xbox wireless portable media player - Engadget
Microsoft's "Argo" / Xbox wireless portable media player - Engadget: "Microsoft's 'Argo' / Xbox wireless portable media player
Posted Jul 10th 2006 4:52PM by Ryan Block
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We've had to sit on this one for a while, but it's about time we showed you guys at least one possible form Microsoft's Argo / Xbox-branded wireless portable media player could take. Sent to us from an insider working on the project, we're told the device pictured above is indeed a part of 'Project Argo,' and from what we can tell it definitely jibes from the blurry pics we caught a while back; though if the piece from earlier today is to be believed, this could just be one of numerous Microsoft portables. It's hard to tell just how much larger the screen on this thing actually is, but it does indeed appear to be a 4:3 aspect ratio display, and could be 3, even 3.5-inches wide. Keep your eyes peeled, you know we do our best to have this stuff as early as possible."
Posted Jul 10th 2006 4:52PM by Ryan Block
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We've had to sit on this one for a while, but it's about time we showed you guys at least one possible form Microsoft's Argo / Xbox-branded wireless portable media player could take. Sent to us from an insider working on the project, we're told the device pictured above is indeed a part of 'Project Argo,' and from what we can tell it definitely jibes from the blurry pics we caught a while back; though if the piece from earlier today is to be believed, this could just be one of numerous Microsoft portables. It's hard to tell just how much larger the screen on this thing actually is, but it does indeed appear to be a 4:3 aspect ratio display, and could be 3, even 3.5-inches wide. Keep your eyes peeled, you know we do our best to have this stuff as early as possible."
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Breaking News: Microsoft Zune Gets FCC Approval? - Gizmodo
Breaking News: Microsoft Zune Gets FCC Approval? - Gizmodo: "Portable video player and game device Microsoft Zune has everyone all atwitter since the Redmondians officially announced the brand last week, and now sleuths at Mobilewhack found a document posted at the FCC that shows what is said to be the approval of Zune, where in the document it's called Microsoft Presenter 3000.
A juicy detail: because of the frequency range mentioned in the document, Zune might include WiFi integration, specifically 802.11b. This follows our earlier reports of Microsoft's statement that 'seven or eight wireless scenarios' could possibly end up in the upcoming line of players. This current FCC approval could mean that Zune could hit the streets much sooner than anticipated. More as the story unfolds. � Charlie White"
A juicy detail: because of the frequency range mentioned in the document, Zune might include WiFi integration, specifically 802.11b. This follows our earlier reports of Microsoft's statement that 'seven or eight wireless scenarios' could possibly end up in the upcoming line of players. This current FCC approval could mean that Zune could hit the streets much sooner than anticipated. More as the story unfolds. � Charlie White"
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