WiMAX: Requiem for a Dream?
Five years ago all had been otherwise. The world was in preparation for a crisis, A.Geim and K.Novoselov had not yet received the Nobel Price, Intel’s annual turnover was just $34B and the only practical wide-band wireless access technology was WiMAX. Since that time many changes have taken place: the world is in preparation for a new crisis, Intel’s turnover exceeds $50B, there are two more Nobel laureates in Russia and for everyone it has become clear that the future of mobile wide-band access unambiguously belongs to LTE technologies. Intel’s dream about changing the telecommunications market has died. But did WiMAX itself died?.