WiMAX.Pk – WiMAX portal for Pakistan

These are tough times for everyone and Wimax is no exception. Nokia has stopped making their only Wimax-enabled device, the Nokia N810 tablet, only 9 months after it was unveiled. Though it hasn’t ruled out Wimax support in future handsets, this is a temporary setback for the technology
(link).

In addition to that and on a related note, Intel has lost significant amounts of money in acquiring Clearwire which depends on devices like the N810 for the success of its service.

Despite these setbacks, there is hope for Wimax. Ari Zoldan has an interesting article on why the predictions of the death of Wimax are premature (link). We’ll need to wait it out and see where we are in a year’s time when hopefully, the economy will be in a better position.

It’s doing pretty well around Pakistan and not going to die soon

Wimax has loads of problems. Aint surprising its in such bad state. The service is slow. The service is unreliable. The technology has issues. The service providers dont have experience. They cant offer quality…..

Thanks for the link. WiMax is definitly not dying. Here are some other optimistic analysis…
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/technology/yang_wimax.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008121815

You’re right Ari. And there’s so much investment done around the world that the numbers alone won’t let it die.

[...] with the recession, many are saying that Wimax is taking a ride–downhill– with the rest of the economy. There are questions [...]

[...] the start of 2009, we wrote about a few setbacks for Wimax and believed this to be a make or break year for WiMAX. We were also concerned that it might not [...]