Trouble for Wimax?

Mike Mesnick has a report about troubles getting Wimax, the next generation of wireless networking technology that increases the range many fold and that has gotten tons of buzz in the press.

“No one denies the potential of WiMAX as a wide area broadband wireless networking technology. Sometimes, though, it appears the buzz has outpaced reality by a significant margin. There are already plenty of stories where either the operators rolling out wireless broadband or the press reporting it have decided to call it WiMAX either because they assume that WiMAX means all wireless broadband, or because they're trying to jump on the marketing bandwagon.”

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