Companies Betting on WiMAX

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @06:13AM from the takin-it-to-the-max dept.

PreacherTom writes "This week, two companies — NextWave and Clearwire — filed to go public and make their fortunes with WiMAX, a wireless broadband technology expected to make serious inroads into the telecom market by offering a high-speed alternative to DSL, Cable, and other current offerings. Market researcher Gartner Dataquest expects the North American WiMAX services market to swell from 30,000 connections in 2006 to 21.2 million by 2011. Could this be the new backbone of the mobile effort?"

1 of 106 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Wombats by fittekuk · 2006-12-20 06:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Has anyone considered the effect of Wombats on the signal? With the ever increasing number of Wombats in our urban centers, surely they will cause interference with the signal. I, for one, would not invest in either of these companies until this is researched and properly documented. After all, who wants to be walking in the park and have their connection go down everytime a wombat goes by?