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Will LTE and WiMAX converge?

By: Howard Solomon On: 09 Mar 2010 For: Network World Canada Creator

Yes says an industry analyst, who has been told that a multimode chip for handsets will be available by the end of the year. No says Motorola exec, who says operators are using the technologies for different markets

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Like Betamax and VHS, the high speed wireless data technologies known as WiMAX and LTE were thought by many to be incompatable, if only because they are backed by different standards organizations.

However, an industry analyst believes they have so much in common they may soon converge.

Robert Syputa, a Seattle-based CEO of Maravedis.com, a wireless broadband research and consulting firm, has been arguing for some time that the two technologies are converging.

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Howard Solomon Howard Solomon is assistant editor of Network World Canada covering network infrastructure and communications issues. An IT journalist since 1997, he has written for several of IT... more

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