Sunday, February 15, 2004

The End of Wireless (as we know it) Telepocalypse has a good piece on the emergence of the 802.20 standard for wireless broadband.  Unlike it's sister standard 802.16 (WiMax), it is not limited to fixed line-of-site wireless, but can handle people moving in cells.  It is less expensive to setup and operate than 3G, but more importantly is built entirely around an IP-based packet networking model, unlike 3G's CDMA based model which still retains a circuit-oriented, voice oriented architecture.  The result may be that new wireless broadband carriers emerge where VoIP is a free service as part of their data offerings.  9:13:19 AM    comment []