Wimax bettet than 3G for India's broadband, says Motorola
03 Jun 2008
New Delhi: Telecommunications firm Motorola Inc, says that Wimax is a better data transmission technology than 3G and India should embrace the Winmax broadband route.
Wimax or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access is a non-cellular telecommunications technology, which like 3G has the capability to transfer data wirelessly over long distances.
But while 3G offers speeds in the range of 5.8-14.4 mega bits a second, Wimax has the potential to ''deliver 70 mega bits over the same spectrum'', stated a senior Motorola executive.
According to the official, Wimax is faster than 3G and other broadband connections and service providers should go for Winmax when the Department of Telecom will auction the 2.1 GHz and higher spectrum band - which will support both the technologies soon.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has also inducted the Wimax technology as part of its 3G standard, the first non-cellular telecommunication technology to get ITU approval.
Researchers at Nokia-Siemens Networks and Heinrich Hertz Institute have showcased a futuristic 3G technology. Known as the Long Term Evolution or LTE, the technology can transfer speed of 100 mega bits per second.
The LTE is still at a development stage and cannot be introduced before 2011, and so Wimax wireless broadband is the best solution in the recent future for building infrastructure for wired internet access, the official added.
