Chicago is My Home

26
Nov

Will Chicago Have Most Advanced Wireless Broadband Network on Planet in 2008?

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Technology

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We recently interviewed Motorola WiMAX business development director Tom Mitoraj on the growth of WiMAX over Wi-Fi. Some highlights follow.

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With Sprint, Chicago is very likely to have the most advanced wireless broadband network on the planet in the next year. With Sprint’s network, that can be in Chicago’s favor.

Chicago will be the marquis city. That can only work to the city’s advantage. The Olympic organization should catch wind of that. That’s one more element that will add to the mix.

Coming to Motorola 15 years ago in the cellular business, there was a tremendous amount of growth internationally.

I got involved in global business with an emphasis on Latin America in the middle of the 1990s. We built CDMA networks in Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina and Peru when CDMA was replacing analog.

It was gratifying to see those systems go live. We built a system with Sprint in Chicago in 1996. The ability to go back to Latin America to build things that revolutionize access to broadband is very exciting.