WiMax is Not Ready for 3G Accreditation Says Datang Chief

WiMax is not ready to be considered part of the 3G family of technologies, the Beijing Morning Post reports, citing China's Datang Telecom. WiMAX was declared to be a 3G technology a couple of weeks ago by the ITU.

"WiMax, based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, is unable to support seamless handover, and can't meet mainstream 3G standards," said Chen Shanzhi, vice chief engineer of Datang Telecom Group, one of China's leading TD-SCDMA vendors.

"In addition, the industrialization of WiMax is immature and many key technologies still need further testing," Chen added.

On the web: Beijing Morning Post

Posted to the site on 29th October 2007