WiMax still not dead despite long waiting…
By: Mirand Lamani
The new wireless technology unveiled a few years ago called WiMax appeared to have reached a stalling point but it apparently still has some tricks up its sleeve.
According to Clearwire, the main company leading the WiMax revolution, the city of Baltimore has already been equipped to offer coverage for the service and more cities are soon to follow the new system.
So what exactly is WiMax? It’s the fourth generation of wireless coverage for mobile devices, mainly cell phones, that supports even higher data bandwith than its predecessor, the 3G service. The 4G WiMax promises to offer an improved connection and voice call quality as well as faster internet access as long as you’re within a 4G-covered area.
For people that use the cell phones simply to make phone calls the only real benefit of WiMax will be fewer dropped calls and clearer voice quality.
For those of us that use the e-mail, chat, and other internet capabilities, however, the WiMax is a welcoming change and one that hopefully reaches our major cities sooner rather than later. If WiMax gets the funding it requires to have a national infrastructure we should expect the service to be commercially available by 2011 across the US, but in this economic recession it’s tough to say what the future of the service looks like.
For more reading and information you can visit the sources of this article:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/technology/yang_wimax.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008121815
This sounds cool Lamani, i never heard of this before. Can’t wait to get it on my phone.