said by Gog123 :

Clearwire is the shining star in the world of Telecommunications.

Back when everyone was saying Google would bid on the 700mhz spectrum, they failed to talk about the merits of 2.5Ghz which provided more bandwidth and higher speeds.

With a combination of the Montevina Intel chips due out soon, Wimax will now be provided for national usage.

For years the MMDS spectrum laid unused and unable to be funded especially in my MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) of New York City. Technology back in the old days was very primative and also not that great which required alot of line of sight equipment.

With the new notebooks and Intel Wimax, that all changes now. A true national network for mobile computing which is everywhere and anywhere will be on the horizon. Just like the expansion of the cellular networks which took man years to build out, now the national wimax network will hit the show on the road

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For me this means computing everywhere and anywhere over 2.5mhz wireless at 2-4Mbps speeds which is faster than competing networks such as the Cellphone carriers like Verizon. Verizon gets the 700mhz spectrum while Clearwire has the better 2.5Mhz spectrum. And to boot this network is native Wimax not some CDMA or Qualcomm owned technology (which is actually Broadcom as Qualcomm was a marketting based company while Broadcom did the actual engineering work which actually sued Qualcomm and won in court)

So this is a win win for all consumers. My hope and guess is that Wimax over this network would be very price competitive because of competition in this space as well as the standardization on the Intel chipset which is essentially the fully dominant platform on mobile computing these days leading to built in Wimax on all the notebook computers with Intel right there and fully ready for usage just like with Wifi which is also built in.

For me Wimax is the best cause of the backing of the investment partners and the higher speed tiers offered combined with the fact that I do not have to plug in a phone or buy a proprietary mobile card in as all new Intel Mobile notebooks will have Wimax as standard.

Wimax latency CAN be 10MS or under (Note CAN, it all depends on the carrier since a poor implementation could see really high ping times).

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I am looking forward to the Lenovo T61 replacement with Montevina and Wimax which is on the top of my radar list right now when it comes out.