Big names will give the nascent broadband wireless standard a big push toward widespread acceptance.
A test of wireless broadband in select areas of Athens, Georgia, will begin in August, and later extend to Florida.
ABI Research announced on Tuesday that WiMax networking options would be here quicker than many anticipated. They said that there are optional specifications built into the 802.16 standard which can boost the sensitivity of receiving equipment to the extent of making WiMAX PC cards and built-in receivers a practical proposition for laptops, PDAs and other portable devices.
The chipmaker and the telecom company want to offer hardware and services for the proposed wireless broadband standard.
Intel chose the Interop 2005 conference in Las Vegas for a live demonstration of its WiMax technology that will offer high-speed wireless Internet access over large areas.
Meet John Q. Deskjockey. He spends the best part of gorgeous Spring days tethered to a desk in a white-walled box with fluorescent lighting and a picture of his favorite mountain lake hemmed in by a decorative frame on the corner of his work station.
Internet on a donkey. Internet in a tent. Lord, almost anywhere. Everybody's on the wagon, ready to brave the frontier of ethereal messaging and downloading.
While WiMax chip sets are being shipped from an Intel plant in Panang, Malaysia for a price of $45 to those who buy in bulk, the cost of a WiMax modem would still exceed $500.
On the heels of WiFi is Intel's latest high speed offering, WiMax, a chip designed to pick up (fanfare please) long-range high-speed wireless Internet.
Daily Telegraph: [In the UK,] Southern Railway and T-Mobile will unveil details [this] week of the world's first train wireless broadband service. The T-Mobile HotSpot service will allow up to 8,000 daily commuters on the London to Brighton route to access the internet. It will be launched in the summer.
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