This story was in my bookmarks folder for a few days now and I took no rush to publish it. I decided to chew up on it for a while to understand what it actually means. Since it’s all going to be in a paper you can purchase early June, I’ll get right to it and skip the details.

Mark May 1st 2007 in your calendar as the day when WiMAX changed forever. Until now it’s been merely another wireless technology that competed with WiFi. But world’s largest WiMAX-class service provider Clearwire just received FCC approval for the first 802.16e Laptop Card.

With doors to true mobility open nothing can stop Clearwire (and WiMAX) to show us the real power of the very much hyped technology. I’m watching!

Get the press report here.

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