Why WiMax?
courtesy of www.intel.com
Sprint’s WiMax network has now begun offering its blazing fast WiMax network in Baltimore. Sprint’s 4g technology is supposed to be up to twice as fast as any other mobile internet offered by Verizon or AT&T.
They named the new network, Xohm (”zoam”), and it currently requires a network card in order to access it which costs you about $60. Many laptops will soon be shipped with integrated technology to handle WiMax, and user access would be similar to WiFi.
Does this mark a transition to a completely wireless age? With speeds of 2-4 megabits/second, it very well could. Just like how land line phones are slowly fading away, we could see the same trend in a few years with personal cable/DSL.