Clearwire enjoys every bit of its WiMax extravaganza at the investors’ expense. Lately Intel and Google have written off more than $1.3 billion. Clearwire hasn’t blinked. It used to pitch WiMax as a mobile substitute of DSL. That never worked. Then it started claiming: WiMax is 4G and it will be better than the LTE of 3GPP camp. Noted. But now Clearwire has dropped the bomb – as par the agreement with Intel, it is not allowed to try LTE before November 2011. Knowing the fundamentals of technology is good. But being the fundamentalist of technology is bad, very bad. Nevertheless, Frost & Sullivan said, “With HSPA and LTE gaining momentum, it is now or never for WiMAX in APAC”. Don’t waste your weekend to figure out the fate of WiMax.
Workshop: Digital Tools for Strengthening Public Discourse
Today, LIRNEasia hosted a workshop to launch digital tools created by Watchdog Sri Lanka, funded by GIZ’s Strengthening Social Cohesion and Peace in Sri Lanka (SCOPE) programme. Researchers, practitioners, activists and journalists attended to learn about these tools, and how they can potentially help them in their own lines of work.
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