O (lento?) avanço do WiMax

«From NewsFactor.com: “The trademark ‘SprintSpeed’ could take on a whole new meaning in 2008, as the telecommunications firm moves ahead with plans to deploy its long-awaited WiMAX service, known commercially as Xohm. “[Recently,] the company announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that a soft launch of the service to Xohm employees in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., is now under way.

“The show in Las Vegas was a busy time for Sprint. In addition to the soft launch, the company has announced a number of new Xohm agreements** for portal services and WiMAX devices…

“The promise of WiMAX technology is remarkable: data transmission speeds as fast as 70 Mbps over distances as great as 50 kilometers. Transmission speeds do drop over distance, however, and it is a shared-bandwidth technology, so actual mileage may vary. A more common metric for the service is 10 Mbps over 10 kilometers. Nonetheless, WiMAX offers the potential for significantly faster and far-reaching wireless Internet than cellular data transmissions or the more well-known WiFi» fonte: