Vint Cerf, VP and Internet evangelist at Google, asserts that broadband service providers could use some competition. Cerf, who helped create the foundations for today’s Internet, says cable modems from cable companies, along with DSL lines from wireline phone companies, are the two most common Internet access technologies, yet both are mostly inadequate for the… Continue Reading
Lack Of Common Spectrum Will Hinder WiMAX
A lack of harmony between different countried available spectrum could hinder or even hurt WiMAx. The nearly universal availability of the 2.4Ghz spectrum is likely one of it’s strong points. WiMax does’nt have that availability. If countries don’t have a common spectrum allocation, manufacturers will have to make many different radios. This means more cost… Continue Reading