T-Mobile exec downplays need for LTE, calls WiMAX ‘niche’
LTE ? WiMAX ? T-Mobile USA’s Neville Ray isn’t as interested in these technologies as the competition. In an interview with BusinessWeek , the Chief Network Officer said, “we’ll look towards LTE at the right point in time for us… that ecosystem is going to be much richer than the competing one from [WiMAX], which is really a niche play.” A niche play, you say? Network burn! What isn’t clear from the BW piece — and it’s something we’re painfully curious about — is if Ray himself used the term 4G as interchangeably as the article implies. After all, the company line is that it’s already got a 4G technology in (the theoretically slower) HSPA+ , as it’s claimed as recently as the G2 announcement . We’re guessing not, but all the same, we wouldn’t hold our breath for any radical new cell towers in T-Mo’s immediate future — and we’d expect nothing less from AT&T than to continue to sneer at its use of the 4G term in its press materials. T-Mobile exec downplays need for LTE, calls WiMAX ‘niche’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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