<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard of WiMax yet, it&#8217;s a broadband internet access everywhere. Not that weak connection you have on you mobile phones or those express card/PCMCIA modems you have. While those only give you 14Mbps download and 6Mbps for upload (that are totally virtual. If you get to half of that, you&#8217;re very lucky!), WiMax allows you to have up to 70Mbps up and down when near the access point, but you have a real value of 10Mbps 10km away, which in my opinion is pretty good, but insufficient in 10 years. But we are in the right path.</p>

<p>There are already <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deployed_WiMAX_networks">a few companies offering WiMax services</a>, but in very small areas (remember WiMax is supposed to be global) and there are already a lot of ISPs owning licenses, but no great effort yet. Well, Sprint is <a href="http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/11/sprint.wimax.this.week/">&#8216;soft-launching&#8217;</a> a intel-based WiMax network in downtown Baltimore, Chicago and Washington DC. Still small areas, but being Sprint the third largest telco in the <span class="caps">USA</span>, I believe they have the power to really spread WiMax over the country. Europe and Asia will follow.</p>

<p>Back in the <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/tag/wsmu"><span class="caps">WSMU</span></a> I heard this technology will only be spread by 2012, which I now disagree strongly. In one/two years, there will be express cards (or whatever will be used for the same purpose) and mobile phones/UMPCs will come already with WiMax support. So the revolution is happening quite soon.</p>