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September 13, 2004
First Comes Nortel, Then Comes Lucent...
Posted by John Yunker
Unstrung Insider is reporting that Lucent is close to joining the WiMAX Forum.
As I noted a week ago, it's just a matter of time before all major telecoms vendors join the Forum. After all, they're in the best position of all to capitalize on the technology.
That's not to say that WiMAX will be a huge success right away. These vendors may only be hedging their bets and have little invested in making WiMAX a part of their carrier product portfolio. But now that Nortel and Lucent are onboard, I expect at least one of them to take WiMAX seriously.
And what about Qualcomm? When are they going to join the Forum? They won't tell me; I suspect much is riding on Nextel's wireless broadband decision. My prediction: Nextel goes with Qualcomm and WiMAX and Qualcomm joins the Forum.
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Russell Shaw is a specialist in mobile computing, telephony, networking and covers these fields regularly for numerous print and online publications. Russ writes the popular IP Telephony blog on ZDNet and contributes regularly to The Industry Standard blog as well. Author of seven books, Russ' latest book is Wireless Networking Made Easy.
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