WiMax -- has it failed

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Charles Pinneo <pinneo () sbcglobal net>
Date: August 31, 2008 11:37:02 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Frode Hegland  
<frode () hyperwords net>, Frode Hegland <frode () hegland com>
Subject: Re: [IP] WiMax whats up?

It doesn't generate profit?

But from reading IP for several years I do know this: municipal WiMax  
has pretty much failed. Nobody wants to pay for it? Dave Farber should  
really answer this because he's been posting comments on it for a two  
or three years. There was actually an IP thread on this called  
"Neighborhood Wireless" or "Neighborhood WiFi." I can't seem to find  
it on my computer or on the "Monthly Archives for Interesting People."  
I know it's there, but it going out of date fast.

Google "Neighborhood Wireless."

A lot of people WERE trying to avoid paying so much money to AT&T and  
Cable. Most have given up. This is central to Network Neutrality.

Here's an article from Popular Science from 2006. It was a technology  
about to happen in 2006, but it may be dead or dying now. Maybe it  
just wasn't profitable. If this article doesn't format properly from  
Mac to PC, I can resend it to you in a different form. WiMax,  
neighborhood wireless, WiFi, municipal WiFi, are all Googleable, but I  
just don't have time right now. I have to drive to an Obama rally in  
Battle Creek. Try NY Wireless at <http://www.nycwireless.net/>. In  
Manhattan they just hitchhike on each others wireless connections. And  
that works if you're not concerned with privacy. I think this is a hot  
topic which died due to the profit factor.





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