May I suggest you research IEEE 801 (WiFi) and future 802 (WiMax).

These wireless standards operate under different ranges and spectrums. So what… one is here, the other is not.

What future standards will be developed? More importantly, by who.

So much is slow to take off, I agree here too. Lots of time before WiMAx comes of age. Lots. …will NT be around by then? I doubt it…

Nortel is now struggling to find new areas with little success. They pay a premium for service or router companies or try and develop slow to take off voice to try and sell some one else’s enterprise server software to with traditionally optimistic targets and no miracles on the horizon. Think WiMax in years from now will save them?

Remember how Nortel tried aligning itself with so many consumer companies that sell shares successfully, like RIM, Symantec, IBM, MSFT, and NT is the only company who has no consumer product.

The Asian and intel will dominate WiMAx anyways, never mind WiFi or SMB of today…, look at WiBro. Samsung leads and in 4G too. Noika just announced cellular capabilities with intel for notebooks. the world turns without Nortel, perhaps better in light of its accounting problems. Just ask yourself where will Nortel be when this starts to take off, history I suspect.

As for Sprint, Investing is one thing, seeing returns is another. Just look at Nortel’s R&D budget as a prime example.

Even their core business suffers. Even Sprint Canada’s last order, in Nortel’s own backyard, went with Lucent and BMO ripped out all of their Nortel gear and replaced it with Cisco’s. Reliability issues also made the news recently. Anyone but Nortel is the trend and what everyone seems to be doing avoiding them as they cut products -do you think WiMax will be different?

Nortel is also right in that even if succesfully, it would be low ticket item relative to its traditional business which is now rapidly decling as they shoot from the hip directionless looking for new avenues unable to afford much as others compete in this future space they may not be around to non-profit hobby in.

Maybe Nortel can design something else with their untouched/least efficient R&D budget, directionless, in the communications arena the way I see it =) Leave WiFi/Wimax to the volume happy survivors and visionaries and Nortel to the courts, police, and trustees as they print paper holding so many hostage with endless hype under safe harbour and so many still there if you will kindly excuse the crass jab =)

Not enough money to make for such a big compagny and I think PMK will soon have plenty of time to play hockey!

The question will become how does a Service Provider that owns spectrum allocate portions of the spectrum to various user types.