By Alan J. Weissberger, alan at viodi.com, www.viodi.com/weissberger/ Abstract We continue to be amazed by the extremely bullish forecasts for mobile WiMAX and the stark reality that there is little money to be made for deploying that technology (at least in the U.S. where licensed spectrum in the 2.5 Ghz band is generally not available…

By Alan J. Weissberger, alan at viodi.com, www.viodi.com/weissberger/ In our last article, we noted that fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is one of the big drivers for IMS. Recall that IMS is designed to deliver ubiquitous IP multimedia telecommunication services to any user, connected through any device, across any access network (fixed wireless/wireline or mobile). However, a…

By Alan J. Weissberger, alan at viodi.com, www.viodi.com/weissberger/ During an April 18th telebriefing, the Yankee Group predicted a proliferation of WiMAX enabled CE devices in 2008-09. The hypothesis is that WiMAX device strategies aim to disrupt the status quo for service distribution- away from traditional CPE (modems, integrated adapters for notebook PCs) and into Consumer…