August 13, 2009 | Ericsson CTO Hakan Eriksson doesn’t much care for WiMAX according to GigaOM. He doesn’t even think of it as a real 4G wireless technology

August 13, 2009 | Ericsson CTO Hakan Eriksson doesn’t much care for WiMAX according to GigaOM. He doesn’t even think of it as a real 4G wireless technology

“There are 400 million people using 3G (HSDPA/WCDMA) technologies today. There will be 70 million people using WiMAX in five years.” And by then, of course, Long Term Evolution (LTE), the 4G wireless technology, will be the de facto standard thanks to the patronage of large phone companies such as Verizon, Vodafone and AT&T, Ericsson hopes.

Eriksson also drew a comparison to India, where GSM-enabled handsets enjoy a price advantage over their CDMA counterparts. “It will be the same for LTE and WiMAX,” he said. “In the end it will be about the economies of scale.”

For more see GigaOM post