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Article: Comcast and CTC show new WiMAX business model.(MOBILE INTERNET)
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- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- March 20, 2009
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- Google's Guiding Hand
By Caroline Gabriel of Wireless Watch
WiMAX, like other new networks that may follow in the future, will be all about supporting new business models and industry structures in order to extend mobile Web capabilities to new user bases and applications.
This week, the US market highlighted two examples, both small steps toward the potential end game envisaged by Google, an open IP "super-network" used on a flexible basis by a host of service providers.
This vision entails a complex web of wholesaler/reseller, franchise and MVNO agreements, and further relationships are likely to be added to the mix as networks ...