Yesterday I gave a keynote address at the 4G Wireless Evolution conference. Since I assume I get invited to these things because I'm controversial, I picked the title "Wi-Fi: The Real 4G" and used my 45 minutes to hit several points:
1. All key 4G technologies have been and are being pioneered by Wi-Fi (3-5 year lead over WiMAX or LTE!).
2. Wi-Fi will be the dominant solution for mobile data offload.
3. 4G technologies represent a wireless tipping point with the result they will revolutionize backhaul and eventually the first mile (via wireless ISPs). And, of course, Wi-Fi products lead here as well.
Finally, I closed with two slides on our new wireless ISP, netBlazr. Here's the deck.
Wi-Fi is the new 4G
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I thing Wimax is, sorry.
Posted by: Track cell phone | December 04, 2010 at 04:24 AM
I'd love to see a dedicated 4G ISP enter the marketplace to compete with the cell phone service providers. It seems as if the cell carriers have the market cornered right now and are able to fix prices for 4G data plans.
Posted by: 4g data plan | February 08, 2011 at 02:19 PM
Thanks for the slides on netBlazer. I found them to be extremely useful.
Posted by: John @ Reverse Cell Phone | February 26, 2011 at 06:23 PM