February 3, 2010 | ZDNet UK – The mobile industry has clearly chosen LTE over WiMax for the next generation of mobile broadband connectivity, a senior Alcatel-Lucent executive has said.
February 3, 2010 | ZDNet UK – The mobile industry has clearly chosen LTE over WiMax for the next generation of mobile broadband connectivity, a senior Alcatel-Lucent executive has said.
Patrick Plas, Alcatel-Lucent’s chief operating officer for wireless, said on Monday that the company is “not putting a lot of effort into this technology [WiMax] any longer”, adding that upcoming LTE launches by companies such as Verizon showed “a clear direction taken by the industry towards LTE”.