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Alcatel-Lucent: WiMAX "somewhat overhyped," but coming along
Paul Mankiewich, CTO for North America Alcatel-Lucent:"I think WiMax is somewhat overhyped, but we just deployed mobileWiMAX in Dominican Republic and going fine. With any of these technoogies you have two years of growing pains.
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Paul Mankiewich, CTO for North America Alcatel-Lucent:
"I think WiMax is somewhat overhyped, but we just deployed mobileWiMAX in Dominican Republic and going fine. With any of these technoogies you have two years of growing pains. I believe the vendors they have building it will make it work: