WiMAX a Go

It looks like we'll be getting WiMAX by mid 2006.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has quietly ratified the long-awaited 802.16e standard for mobile WiMAX, which is also known as 802.16-2005.

It's about time.  From the Wiki page for WiMAX:

The technology has been claimed to provide shared data rates up to 70 Mbit/s, which, according to WiMAX proponents, is enough bandwidth to simultaneously support more than 60 businesses with T1-type connectivity and well over a thousand homes at 1Mbit/s DSL-level connectivity.

This would be ideal for a smaller town, such as the one I live in with 100,000 people, where the need for wires is a thing of the past and there would then be more than two options for highspeed internet for the area.  The initial costs would be high, but with reasonable pricing it would pay for itself in the end.  Now where did I put that $500,000,000 I need to put a tower on the hill across the lake?

 

 

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