The Inquirer has a bit of a story about a competing standard to Intel’s WiMAX long-range wireless networking protocol that could just eat Intel’s lunch (but, you know, probably not). The Wi-Fi standard called 802.20, or ‘Mobile-Fi,’ (WiMAX is 802.16e, if you care) and has a lot to recommend it over WiMAX, including the ability to operate at faster traveling speeds (up to 250km/h) such as when traveling by car or train. It isn’t quite as fast or as long-ranging as WiMAX, though, and it doesn’t have a huge corporate juggernaut backing it, so its hopes for widespread adoption are probably thin. But it’s an interesting alternative to WiMAX—and more importantly, 3G cellular services—and I thought it bore mentioning.
Intel’s WiMAX plans face huge threat [TheInquirer]
