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Industry Spellbound by WiMax - Hype finally starts to give way to progress |
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Written by broadbandreports.com
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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The frenzy has escalated in the past couple of months after major players made deep commitments to a particular flavor of wireless broadband: WiMax. Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have declared they will build competing nationwide WiMax networks; Sprint saying they'll spend $3 billion to provide WiMax access for more than 100 million people by 2008. Over-hyped early on in its lifecycle, Wimax is finally gaining traction thanks in large part to the endless financial attention of tech giants Intel and Motorola.
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