WiMAX Is 3G But Still Outside Looking In!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Andrew M. Seybold - Andrew Seybold, Inc.
…On Tuesday, October 23, 2007, Qualcomm announced just such a chip. It is calling this chip Gobi, coined from Go and Be, symbolic of travel, expedition and vast coverage, and it suggests access anywhere and ultimate mobility. Even if you don't care for the name, the idea should appeal to you. You will be able to purchase a notebook computer with embedded wireless broadband (and GPS), and no matter where you are in the world (with the exception of Japan for now), you can turn it on, register on a network and have instant access to wireless broadband.
This is an amazing chipset designed from the ground up for notebooks, UMDs and consumer devices―not a chipset adapted from a mobile phone. It employs a software modem and the radio technology enables sharing components between the radios. In terms of wireless frequencies, it provides coverage on 850, 900, 1800, 1900 and 2100-MHz bands and supports the appropriate technologies on each band: CDMA 1x/EV-DO/EV-DO Rev A and GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA. There is also a separate GPS receiver…
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