| Take a step back Rarely does a technology catch fire right off the bat. If it does, it probably filled a need that had never been filled before. WiMax obviously doesn't do that, hence the hesitation in its adoption. What it does do is provide an interesting way of interconnecting and providing significant bandwidth for wide-area WiFi networks backhaul. I think this is the niche market that it will find itself in eventually. Of course it will have to go through the same kind of unfriendly press and investors it has been getting for years in order to finally reach this market. As WiFi improves in terms of bandwidth and QOS (Maybe the FCC can bite off a little extra spectrum for unlicensed use  )and population density makes traditional cells financially unviable we may even see the beginning of the end for cell phone companies. Unless of course they make moves to mitigate the effect of WiFi on their outdated and ripoff business models (a la T-Mobile Hotspots)... |
