Mobile WiMAX Coming Sooner Than Expected: Analyst

“There may be WiMAX PC cards on the market earlier than many observers have expected,” Solis said. “You will not have full mobility as you will with 802.16e, but you will have some portability.”

Solis noted that two vendors — TeleCIS and Sequans — already are creating chipsets that use this existing technology. However, he noted that, so far, large vendors of WiMAX and pre-WiMAX equipment have not taken advantage of this little-used specifications.