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Article: Mobile WiMAX: challenges and opportunities: to enable roaming, mobile WiMAX devices will need to support multiple bands, which creates a variety of considerations for designers of such devices, as well as their component suppliers.(UNLICENSED TECHNOLOGIES)
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- Wireless Design & Development
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Mobile WiMAX
Most service providers will position mobile WiMAX as a low-cost alternative to incumbent wired and wireless technologies. This creates a challenge for device designers, which must hit operators' agressive retail price targets. In order to realize the plethora of wirelessly connected devices that WiMAX promises to deliver, designers, OEMs and chipset providers must work together to overcome the inherent design challenges that Mobile WiMAX presents.
Although dozens of service providers worldwide have committed to or have already begun deploying mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e), the technology will take several years before it achieves geographic ...