A veces se encuentra en el mercado algún ejecutivo con capacidad para hablar públicamente de lo que muchos piensan pero no dicen en público. Frank Ohrtman de WMX Systems es una de esas personas que encima cuando hacen declaraciones las hacen divertidas.

The Big Names in Telecom have been pushing 3G and 4G solutions in their marketing material since the late ’90’s. So, “Big Names”, where’s the 3G? Sure, there is EVDO, which will give me faster email on my cell phone and I can connect via my laptop at a few hundred kilobits per second if I’m in a dense urban metro business district. However, its not going to give my office multiple T1 speeds and we can’t watch IPTV on it in our suburban homes. The truth is, 3G (technologies other than WiMAX, that is) is hung up by a monolithic mentality that only Real Big Companies can deliver 3G infrastructure and services. The assumption is that cellular service providers or RBOCs would do this, but the chief fallibility here is that these companies have cash constraints of their own that do not allow multi-billion dollar roll-outs of 3G services any time soon. In turn, they would have to buy this gear from a small handful of Real Big Vendors who would charge over $100,000 for a 3G base station (compare to WiMAX at $5,000 per base station). Next they would have to connect those base stations to a purpose-built 3G network using only Real Big Vendors gear. WiMAX, on the other hand, can connect to any IP (see any co-lo facility, data center, ISP, “lit” building, etc) or ATM (see any central office) source. Long story short, proprietary 3G solutions from Big Names in Telecom can’t compete with WiMAX. I strongly recommend incumbent service providers seriously consider a WiMAX solutions. If you don’t take care of the customer, some one else will.

Realmente muy buena opinión, con algunas fallas o mejor dicho cierta “animosidad” porque a Wimax le faltan un par de años para la cobertura y penetración que “el otro” mercado ya tiene y que solo debe upgradear.. o simplemente “hibridizar”. Pero es una opinión que vale la pena leer.