WiMAX woes

6/25/2008 12:07 AM EDT

For starters, Frost and Sullivan released a report that raised doubts about its long-term viability Bleak prospects seen for mobile WiMAX.

And WiMAX Trends, a publication that usually sees the sunny side of WiMAX, bemoaned the fact that "A lack of WiMAX deployments in France has led that country's regulator, ARCEP, to launch an investigation to determine how close national WiMAX licensees are to meeting their rollout obligations."

Last week, my article on multimode (Endgame: Will WiMax and LTE find happiness in multimode?), also whittled away at the idea that WiMAX was somehow and irresistible force.

I've also had a few emails from readers suggesting that the power/battery life issue for both LTE and WiMAX is only going to become more widely acknowledged.

We have at least a partial answer in SiGe technology. See How to meet the design challenges of WiMAX power amplifiers.

No wonder the carriers are, perhaps, dragging their feet.