Wimax to ‘overtake Wi-Fi’ in public networks by 2010
June 12th, 2007 Posted in Technology
By 2010, Wimax will replace Wi-Fi as the technology of choice for public wireless networks, as barriers currently preventing widespread adoption are removed, analyst firm Gartner has predicted.
“There are two particular attractions of Wimax for municipal networks: wider area coverage than Wi-Fi and operation in licensed as well as unlicensed spectrum,” said Ian Keene, research vice-president at Gartner.