wimax

With all this hype about wimax, when are going to see it. I hear that
it's already being aplied in Europe and Japan, however, when are we
going to see it here in the states?

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In <1131062670.612248.225680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups .com> on 3 Nov 2005
16:04:30 -0800, cervantes77@hotmail.com wrote:

>With all this hype about wimax, when are going to see it. I hear that
>it's already being aplied in Europe and Japan, however, when are we
>going to see it here in the states?

For a sobering assessment of WiMax (counterpoint to exaggerated hype), see
"Wireless: Facts and Fiction" by Benjamin Friedlander of UC Santa Cruz at
<http://www.wca.org/year2005/WCA04210_web.htm>.

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Thanks for the link John!

I found it to be a much more realistic picture of what will occur with
WIMAX.

We rarely forget that the proponents of the technology have something to
sell and will hype their widget to the max (sorry about that). But, we
almost never think of the others that have something to sell in telling the
story.

....like the newspapers must entice readers to buy their papers and websites
must entice readers to read their stories to sell ad space. A hyped story
about the "next big thing" always pulls more readers than a story that
actually weighs the pros and cons intelligently.

And, in this era of instant news, websites especially are prone to slpping
out the first thing that looks like a good article, with little if any
actual research by the writer into the technology.

But, if the writer waited to do the proper research, other writers would
"break the story" first and the more researched article may not get as much
attention for the advertisers as the hyped stories. Thus, economically
speaking, it is better for newspapers and websites to publish rushed hype
than tested facts.

The more that I think about it, the more I understand what "breaking a
story" really means.

Jim Hubbard

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> In <1131062670.612248.225680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups .com> on 3 Nov 2005
> 16:04:30 -0800, cervantes77@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>With all this hype about wimax, when are going to see it. I hear that
>>it's already being aplied in Europe and Japan, however, when are we
>>going to see it here in the states?
>
> For a sobering assessment of WiMax (counterpoint to exaggerated hype), see
> "Wireless: Facts and Fiction" by Benjamin Friedlander of UC Santa Cruz at
> <http://www.wca.org/year2005/WCA04210_web.htm>.
>
> --
> Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
> John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>