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Jan 09 2008 12:00am EDT

WiMax Wishes at CES

Oh how I wish for WiMax. Big fat glorious broadband everywhere, built into whatever gadget or laptop I'm using, working like WiFi but faster and everywhere. No more sitting in a cafe and searching for WiFi signals that come up weak or wanting. No more sticking EVDO cards into a USB slot so they stick out like growths.

Here at the Consumer Electronics Show, this is what we're being promised. Intel has built WiMax-enabled chips that it hopes will goose the market the way its Centrino goosed WiFi oh those many (4? 5?) years ago. Sprint tells us its WiMax network is being built. General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner wants to sell us WiMax-ed cars.

It will no doubt happen -- maybe not that long from now. But I fear that CES is teasing us a bit. This seems like one of those things, like 3G cellular technology, that smokes for quite a while before the fire really starts.

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