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We love wireless.  We admire wireless acronyms: WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G, MIMO…. and list goes on and on.  But what we enjoy most is “wireless fiction”:  WiMax will give us 75Mb/s at 30 miles distance; we will watch full feature movies on the bus over 3G networks, or, yes, MIMO will solve everything!

Well, some stuff may happen.  After all look at what we have today relative to what we had 20 years ago!  Who believed just few years ago that we would have more than a billion cellular subscribers by 2006?  Every laptop can wirelessly connect to Internet?  Lot of good stuff happened over the years, but also some bad stuff… let not forget the 3G financial disaster by end of the previous millennium.   This disaster was probably one of the leading causes to the last big recession that we mistakenly call the “dot.com bust”.

The major promise of 3G was and still is high-speed data services.  Can 3G really deliver economical high speed data service? Saying “economical” we mean cheap, yes cheap!  We got used to $19.95 for DSL or cable, why should we pay more when it comes over wireless? Would we? Probably not.  No wonder it was hard. At the end of the day it is voice again, voice service pays the bills and saves the day.  Pathetic…

So why all these flops? Why wireless got to be known as a graveyard for many startups and other colossal failures (Satellite phones, Metricom  $1B down the drain, 3G spectrum loans may never be paid… etc.).   We think lack of basic knowledge of technology limits may be a leading cause.  Ignoring the limits we keep building products that cannot return the investment, the service gets either too expansive and performance too low (we will deal with some examples in posts to come, we promise!).

OK, so why this blog?

We want to make wireless simple.  We will do our best efforts to explain wireless issues using simple terms so almost anyone understands.  We intend to touch on any wireless subject in mind; especially the “fiction wireless” stories (“wireless dreams”).  We invite you to post comments, ask questions, suggest subjects of interest.  Remember, we love wireless and we love to discuss wireless issues.  We are also experts and we will not lie to you…