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iPhone has serious implications (positive) for WiMAX industry

iphonepic Greetings from snowbound Denver (not sunny Las Vegas). I am NOT at Consumer Electronics Show nor MacWorld. Judging from the media coverage, I don’t have to be. The highlights from yesterday was the announcement of Apple’s iPhone. Disclosure: this blog is written on a PowerBook while listening to tunes on an iPod.

What does this have to do with WiMAX? Lots! Let me be the first pundit to link iPhone and WiMAX. Buried in the press blizzard is the note that the iPhone offers a SIM card, which, I hypothesize, could enable a WiMAX connectivity (assuming a service provider/access piece is on the appropriate spectrum).

What has everyone all abuzz is the fact that its as close to a one-device-does-it-all in one small form factor handset. That is, in addition to the marketing no-brainer of iPod and cell phone, it’s a handheld PC, mobile TV device and GPS. It would be a shame to spend almost $500 and use it largely for cell phone and iTunes. What happens a year from now when 1,000 Cingular subscribers serviced by one base station want to follow some stellar or cataclysmic event on their mobile TV iPhone. How will that cell phone oriented base station handle the bandwidth demand?

One of many answers is that the service provider will at least need to upgrade their backhaul. The fast and efficient solution is WiMAX. After that, the solution is WiMAX to the iPhone.

Memo to Apple, I’m available for discussions on your WiMAX iPhone strategy

Frank Ohrtman
President, WMX Systems

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tags: aperto| apple| frabk ohrtman| iphone| wimax

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 in Applications | Archives | Business | Permalink | Comments (3)

Release time!

Posted by Ali Saghaeian at 2007-01-16 05:03 AM

I wonder to know when such a product will be released to Markets and how WiMAX can help it practically.

Thank you a lot,
http://wimax.persianblog.com

No Wimax for IPhone

Posted by Gino Villarini at 2007-01-19 06:44 AM

Frank, Let me clarify that a Sim card slot is not a peripheral port as a SD card slot or others, a SIM card is a simple memory that stores users carrier access codes, user account info and users phonebook.

a wimax device cant be plugged into this port

Sorry

Gino

Mark Tomin

Posted by Mark Tomin at 2007-03-01 05:31 PM

While iPhone is great, there is a new Nokia n95 already being released that does everything iPhone does plus more. This is not another "ipod killer", Nokia is well established in this market, and Apple will have to work hard to get their markshare.

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