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WiMAX is a telecommunication technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances. This was created as a more reliable and more accessible alternative to DSL and cable wires. This wireless data-streaming format is based on the IEEE standard, also called as WirelessMan. Created by the WiMAX Forum, this was developed to promote conformance and interoperability of the standard.

A joint venture dubbed as Clearwire will pave the way for the proliferation of WireMax across the United States, thus, experts had predicted that cable or phone line connection may be obsolete in the near future. Even Google place a multi-million dollar bet on WiMAX backers saying that this technology will revolutionize the concept of Internet use.

South Korea has adopted this wireless technology with quite a success. Around 150,000 people (most of them from Seoul) are subscribers to WiMAX mobile services. Today, a total of 110 countries are being deployed with WiMAX.

The connections being used by this technology are data-rich and quite inexpensive. These features created a great compatibility with Google’s “Gphone” that offers Internet services and mobile phone services. Wimax was also seen as a solution for reaching remote places as this uses towers that can deliver high-speed Internet service.

According to Scenna Pabesh, a spokeswoman for nonprofit WiMAX Forum, Wimax will become a mass market technology in the next two to three years and it will have a global propagation in the near future.