Like most political wrangling, there's more than one side to the issue. The whole issue of standards has been dragging on for some time now. Flarion Technologies is propagating Flash-OFDM, a wideband approach aimed at mobility applications in cellular networks. In Wi-LAN's OFDM version, the carrier spacing is large enough so that frequency errors between the transmitter and receiver are only a fraction of the spacing, making the spacing negligible on the system performance. Thirty Mbps exceed the 10 Mbps the industry expects from 4G systems.
Analysts applaud the technology for improving reception and processing signaling with scale.
Cisco, one of the telecom equipment vendors carefully dodging Wall Street beatings, has been massaging its standard into the industry for some time now. But tentative telecom players weren't ready to give more market share to the telecom equipment giant. A lot of them didn't like the idea of the market being defined by Cisco. Vendors aren't the only ones to blame for standard battles, Fuertes says. The greed of regulating bodies both domestic and abroad.