Comments on: What will make WiMAX service a must-have for you?

By: wiman

wiman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:26:34 +0000

Roaming is somethin a company in Spain is trying to have for the world. Name is Gowex. Thy are doing lot of things.

I think Wimax is a winner and sooner o late critical mass will come.

By: neill

neill — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:38:06 +0000

i’d like to see a service that is available universally w/o me haveing to sign up for a dozen different providers countrywide

even if the speed is not that great, but while travelling i need my email, not youtube or big software downloads! at least 500k would be OK for that

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By: Cole

Cole — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:12:51 +0000

The only requirement for me to sign up as that is be available! I live in the sticks and my “broadband” (ha) choices are: Sprint or Verizon EVDO or satellite………Actually the ultimate wimax modem for me would be one that could roam on Sprints EVDO

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:48:03 +0000

There are already no contracts and it works in moving vehicles. The performance is indeed typically 2-4Mbps and some get 6Mbps or more.

When do you get 2-10Mbps for public WiFi? I’m lucky if I get 1Mbps. The WiFi range is so small, you pretty much have to sit near the router and even then sharing with other users.

While roaming agreements will likely occur, the device itself is not tied to Xohm anyway. Like WiFi, you can connect to any ‘mobile’ WiMAX service as long as your card supports the spectrum – most cards support all three major spectrum ranges but not all do.

What I’m looking forward to about WiMAX is for it to appear in any device, like GPS, iPod, PSP, etc.