Depending on the week, WiMax is either working great, or seriously flawed. In the past couple of weeks, there’s been a flurry of activity from both camps.
Getting the most attention right now, is the CEO of an Australian WiMax operator who called the technology a “disaster” that “failed miserably.” Garth Freeman, the CEO of Buzz Broadband, made the statements at a WiMax conference in Bangkok, according to CommsDay, which described the speech as an “astonishing tirade.” Freeman said WiMax failed on several fronts: line of sight, latency rates and VoIP performance. Furthermore, he charged that most of the deployments were still in trials, and the operators were supported by “second-tier vendors,” and that the technology was
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