General IT budget pressures and security issues are more important than wireless connectivity, which is seen as a "value-added" rather than "fundamental" infrastructure change by the silicon.com CIO Jury.
Another supporter is British Airways CIO Paul Coby, who said that while internal use of 3G will be an "evolution, not revolution", there is potential in 3G to offer another way for customers to interact with the airline.
Instead of the advantages which have accrued to the 'first movers' in the dot-com revolution, the next stage of development for mobiles could be a reversion to the old computer-company saying that pioneers are the ones with arrows in their backs.
One of the problems faced by WiMax in this early stage of its development is that over-enthusiastic vendors are talking up different parts of the technology with no clear message about its best use. WiMax must be seen in context with its rivals...
While WiMax has been around for some years already, Richardson believes the drop in price and advent of 'plug and play' self-installation units will mean a boom for the technology, both for backhaul and in terms of supplying connectivity to homes...
W is for WiMax Davies said that the time it took to survey locations in the planning stage of the implementation was cut by a third as a result of using the analysis tool. Another 10 sites have also been provided with wireless connectivity which...
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