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If cable and wimax are mixed, it will blow like a bomb explosion just like the snapshot which thanks to digg image capture is chopped off.

I want my WiMax... :||

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because adding a wire to wi-fi would mean wi-fi being wired........

Wimax base station should be sold to anyone like a wifi router. then we could free ourselves from the asshole ISPs and their throttling policies.

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WiMax is awesome.

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I believe that WiMax will not be as beneficial in countries with existing cable infrastructure. However, it will work miracles in developing countries such as India.

WiMAX is awesome if you have an imagination and realize the world is moving to portable internet platforms.

Why would ever compare cable and wimax ? Why not compare dialup and a T1. Cmon.. get a clue people. WiMAX is for portability, cable has... a cable. There are not competing technologies.

Many rural customers don't have DSL or Cable in the US still... like me.
I have EVDO wireless.. or dialup.

Like most articles, they are written by people who are most influenced by city economies. So, to many of them, wireless data services are just stupid. Why not just get a wifi service right...

Nah, I think the cellular providers are in a perfect position. Look at the iPhone, sure it's overprices, but it shows people want more PC like power in their cell phone... or at least.. portable internet (that's what I want not a phone/pda all in one).

To me a phone is a thing to be avoided. But.. a portable internet device is a dream come true.

So I use my phone.. as a phone.. simple cheaper, rugged, utilitarian. I always get the free model and always wind up half destroying in by the end of my 2 years, at which point they give me a new free phone.

If I bought an internet device I would hope it lasted more than two years. SO, if I combined my phone and my internet device... chances are I will pay more and have an inferior phone merely for the convenient of having one bulk device instead of two smaller ones.

Apple, should have leverage the iPod into a mobile platform... not simple a mobile phone. Not saying they aren't going that of course. Phone are very popular and sell well, but it's a dumb budiness model to try to compete with asian phone makers. They will just copy and own you.
Plus since phones are mostly disposable why tie your internet device, which isn't, into your phone.

Makes no sense other than the theory that people have tiny bodies and therefore their pockets and purses cannot hold more than an iPhone. OR perhaps if you cant to talk and surf.. oh but wait. OR maybe if you want to surf and talk ??

Hmm but I guess that would actually be easier with a two separate devices. Oh plus it wouldn't get as hot.

Just have your PDA get internet from your bluetooth and make PDAs that are cheaper and meant for surfing. The modular market is more desirable and you don't ever want to link your PDA to your phone unless money is no object, but when selling things, money is always an object.

Maybe once they are giving away iPhones for free, I'll stop complaining, but otherwise, no way I'm paying for a buy bulky cell phone with a tiny display because it can display tiny video or tiny internet.

Dugg for the comments, seems like we have some Diggers with more knowledge of wireless tech than this article's author... I like how this guy talks about companies like Intel "sinking" money into WiMax and other companies having already given up. He didn't do any research on WiMax in countries like Korea? I guess they call it WiBro or something there, I guess that could have thrown off this guy's google (re)search?

I work for a WiMAX ISP. While I can't comment much on the state of WiMAX in the USA, The claim by the author that WiMAX is going nowhere fast shows his ignorance. WiMAX is growing steadily. I also think it's unfair to rate WiMAX as a mobile platform since the mobile standard, 802.16e which allows for roaming and seamless handover has only just been implemented. Most WiMAX ISPs outside the USA are running on 802.16d which, as the author said, is more suited for fixed wireless broadband access. And in that capacity it works exceedingly well.

In the city, WiMAX offers an alternative to wired infrastructure that is very resilient. The average consumer may not go gaga over WiMAX in it's current form, but from an ISP/Enterprise perspective, it's doing it's job quite well.

WiMAX as a mobile standard will take a while to mature and is dependent on end-user devices supporting it. This will take a while to get in the hands of consumers. It'll be interesting to see how things develop.

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