Volume Lowered on Wimax HypeWimax: 3% of broadband users by '09
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old news - 11:25AM Wednesday Feb 16 2005)
tags: wireless · hardwareResponding to the same InStat study, the
Enquirer leads with
"Wimax Likely to Have Limited Success", while
Mobile Pipeline runs the headline
"WiMAX Could Alter Telecom Industry." Both are responding to new predictions that the oft-hyped wireless broadband technology will likely only grab
three percent of total broadband customers world-wide by 2009 - if all goes well. That's a far cry from the
Wimax hype of 2004; many proclaimed it would quickly become a competitor for DSL and cable.