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06/28/2007WiMAX: Hype or Happening?
A recent survey by Motorola found that: - Nearly half of all those responding, 49 percent, would likely use WiMAX to read or respond to e-mail;
- 31 percent would read or view "live," real-time online media;
- 28 percent would enjoy mobile entertainment, such as interactive, on demand, mobile TV; and,
- Another 28 percent said they would use WiMAX to download and listen to music.
How do we parse these numbers? What do they really mean? And does it follow that if "consumers clearly want to eliminate broadband cables or wires to access high-speed Internet connectivity," as Fred Wright of Motorola claims, they necessarily want WiMAX, or even care? Here's the original article. Again, in an article on WiMAX in Business 2.0, Michal Lev-Ram advises us to "fasten our seat belts," because "the Internet service model of telecoms, cable companies, and cellular operators is about to be disrupted." Hmm, haven't we heard that before? Here's the original article. So what's the dirt on WiMAX? Revolution, or evolution? Soloist, or member of the chorus? Tell us what you think....
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Comments
Costis Toregas
I am convinced that the users are outcome oriented, and neutral to indifferent regarding the medium used to connect them to the information that can provide their desired outcome. This is why applications will always rule the customer space, and why the debate has to move beyond the providers of networks and include providers of applications. I is only when we explore deeply the requirements for such customer-desired applications that we can begin to separate the wheat from the chaff....
12:33 AM, 06/29/2007
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