Satellite Guys to WiMAX: Why You Hate Us!

When it comes to wireless broadband, WiMAX is one technology that has some bad juju. You have two of its premier proponents in the U.S., Clearwire and Sprint, riding leaky boats in rocky financial seas. You have LTE as a potential competitor, thanks to backing from AT&T and Verizon. And now there is a new report out that says that WiMAX causes interference with satellite communications transmitted in the C-Band frequency.

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  • Eduardo Garza

    In Monterrey, Mexico theres a telephone carrier (AXTEL)thats is testing and started to use motorola WIMAX solution which has done interference to the Directv(ka &ku Band) and Dishnetwork DSS.In my experience is that the interference is so strong that you almost unable to see almost any channel on the system. I been trying to have a different localizations on my property and still have the same reception.

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