Shocker: Wimax Didn't Explode in '05 → Re: Am I wrong?

Serious deployment = a serious competitor to DSL and cable....that isn't happening in 2006 on either the fixed or mobile front. Not sure one can define "serious deployment" as "scattered businesses using fixed Wimax as a fiber alternative"...

As rewritten I agree, but that is not what 802.16d in the next couple years is aimed at. There are 2 flavors of WiMax, and the 2nd one (802.16e) is the one that you are referencing in terms of hype, because the first version is really only for commercial urban customers or for rural broadband. That will not be hype in 2006, even if you consider it to not be "serious deployment" due to lack of pervasiveness.

True.

There are other wireless technologies that ARE serious competitors to DSL and cable. WiMax is undoubtedly widely hyped. So is BPL. So is DSL. So is 3G. The emerging "technology" related industries are always rife with lies and false advertizing. It is sad that these industries are hyped this way.

On the other hand the constant WiMaX bashing that goes on here at DSLR belies the fact that very few people who actually post in these WiMax bashing fests are clueful WRT any wireless technology.

WiMax, if and when it delivers, will simply be another tool in the wireless data communicators tool chest. Hopefully it will perform as well as say Motorola Canopy, for example.

I agree.

I think the hype and knee-jerk optimism are attacked more than the technology. Who here really doesn't want ubiquitous wireless bandwidth?

Thinking in particular of Intel's comments that this was "the greatest invention since the Internet itself". It was all just a bit thick, and as the Unstrung article points out, people were ready to annoint Wimax a broadband god as early as 2004....