Sunday, June 6, 2010

TD-LTE Kills WiMAX

TD-LTE will lead to the demise of WiMAX, with device sales peaking by 2015, say researchers at WiseHarbor. WiMAX has made significant commercial progress by occupying the unpaired spectrum that tends to be much cheaper than the paired spectrum used for CDMA-based technologies including EV-DO and HSPA, the firm notes.

But TD-LTE will eclipse WiMAX because it likewise allows the use of unpaired spectrum as well as the paired spectrum already employed commercially by LTE.

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