WiMAX is Gettin’ Some Love: NYT and GigaOM
Just a pointer to some WiMAX-love hitting the interwebs: First up a New York Times piece about the wonder of WiMAX connectivity in Baltimore (remember Xohm?). One great point raised by the article is the problem of how Windows — namely the time, often several minutes or more that it takes for a PC to boot up — keeps WiMAX from being an “instant-on” mobile technology.
Second is Om’s take on some WiMAX number-crunching from the fine folks at Infonetics, who are keeping score and are finding growing WiMAX subscriber numbers in India, Brazil, Russia and other places where WiMAX doesn’t simply translate into Clearwire.
What’s good for WiMAX proponents is that both bits concentrate on real data and analysis, and not conjecture over promised theoretical speeds that may never materialize. With each commercial deployment, WiMAX becomes less a mystery and more just another technology judged on its merits. For a lot of providers in the right situation, WiMAX is looking more and more like a viable choice.
