tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| last mile leapfrog...
Wimax probably did itself in with MEGA HIGH upfront costs of deployment. If the cellular carriers were REALLY interested in the technology and the costs were 'right' it would have been a done deal.... but much like many of the DSL technologies, $$-greed-$$ can be it's OWN WORST ENEMY/DETRACTOR...
Besides, we're already hearing rumblings of the NEXT generation of wireless technologies going up into the gigabit plus data rates (think 4G on space shuttle rocket engines).. who's going to care about a long-distance few hundred megabit technology which has gone done the too little, too late, too costly road of obsolescence. 3-5 years in technology is a long time to "standardize" and schmooze industries to buy something... if your not convincing anyone it's time to vaporize it and move on to next generation technologies.
One way wimax could have worked is if it were paired with a relatively popular and costly product line such as the Iphone. But, alas.. AT&T already has that albatross called u-verse to invest in.. |
