With 802.16e being ratified almost two months
ago, when will we begin to see WiMax equipment like PC cards and WiMax-capable laptops? Enough with 802.11g already,
gotta have over 100 megabits/second while cruising down the strip. 802.11g just brings down the reason to even start
the car in the morning. Well, ok - I can give manufacturers a little more than two months to get customer equipment on
shelves (real or virtual). But, wait a minute...What is Qualcomm doing with the Flarion technology they bought for quite a sum last year? Could Flash OFDM could push WiMax aside as a WAN truly-mobile, high-speed data solution? Qualcomm makes a killing with license fees (since they haven't sold consumer equipment since selling the handset division to Kyocera), but do they stand to march all over the new 802.16e mobile WiMax standard with OFDM in some flavor (like orange or grape, for example)? To sell extremely-heavy content (bandwidth-wise), one of these contenders needs to stand up and fight the good fight. I don't think it will be a TKO at all.
