I drove 3 hours from my house to the exhibition center, I left my home around 5:30am !!! and I was there around 8:30am. Traffic was awesome!!! I had fun on the road!!! The conference started around 9:00am. The first talk was about the definition
of 4G. The speaker is from Yankee group, and he was presenting some of the key issues about the 4G and some statistics about the wireless communications. Lots of predictions, assumptions, comments, questions .....
I was able to join the conference for one day, because the participation was very expensive. For the day I joined, I tried to get most out of it, I was filtering each information I received from presenters, and at the end of each session I was able to get couple of key words from the presentations. One of them is that in order to migrate from 3G to 4G, we need more time than expected. There are lots of issues that should be agreed upon, for instance standardization issues. Lots of wireless operators want to invest money on 4G technologies, but they can not even define what 4G is. Every company and every people has different definition, approach and totally different mindset about enabling 4G. Everyone talks about convergence of the systems, but converge to what???? Converge to divergence???
Unless the definitions, and technologies are not stated clearly, we really can not get benefit of 4G in the most efficient way. It is a great set of technologies if we agree on the purpose of it! We can not see how deep the water is unless we reach the bottom! The thing that makes me very happy about 4G, it seems it is a very deep water! Have you ever thought about 5G,6G,..., 100 G, 1000 G, 10^6 G?:) We should jump into the space. World is so small for 1000Gs!
Volkan Sevindik
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