WiMax the Next Wireless Frontier

Sprint and Clearwire have joined forces to establish a WiMax infrastructure. The plan on blanketing the United States with enough transmitters for nearly 140 million Americans by 2010. Essentially, these transmitters are going to pop up as fast as those cell phone transmitters did.

Once it is all established, you will be in a permanent hotspot and will be able to get fast Internet connections from a cellphone or laptop anywhere you go. Certainly Verizon and AT&T would be the big losers in this situation. Sprint and Clearwire also have allies that will help provide nearly $3 billion in funding to get the project started. The project is being tested by Clearwire in Portland, Oregon right now but now has plans to rapidly expand.

Intel and Google are contributing to the projects because of their stake in making money through this new infrastructure. Intel would supply the chips to help spur growth in the industry, and Google will gain a broader hold as the preferred search engine by staking a claim on the WiMax market now.

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