WiMax 2 standard ready for approval, goal of 100 Mbps downlink speeds

By on Aug 16, 2010 at 8:00 PM
General August 16, 2010

Computerworld is reporting that the second iteration of the WiMax 4G technology — known as WiMax 2 or 802.16m — is ready to be finalized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) this November. After approval, the WiMax 2 Forum hopes to see WiMax 2 handsets in the marketplace by the end of 2012. Mohammad Shakouri, the VP of the WiMax Forum, has said that the goal is “to deliver average downlink speeds of more than 100Mbps to users.” The newer, faster WiMax will not saturate areas any better than its predecessor, although it will offer backwards compatibility to the first generation WiMax (802.16e). At it’s current rate, Internet traffic is predicted to double every year from now until 2013. Experts estimate that the world will consume roughly 1.3 million terabytes of data per month… in video alone. Bearing that in mind, it’s good to see the bandwidth threshold of these 4G technologies continue to rise!

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  • d(*_*)b

    FIRST TO COMMENT BOOYAKA!!!

    • bonesb

      And first to be downranked into oblivion. Booyah!

  • http://www.webhostinglogic.com Hippy Hop

    Good news! Internet bandwidth demand will continue to rise and that is certain. The thing is will technology cope up with the demand? A lot of ISP out there are struggling to give their customers the speed they need but cannot cope with them, resulting to poor service.

  • bonesb

    Only if someone can get WiMax working consistently well indoors, one can only wish. For LTE, in the 700 flavor…

  • Mike

    Yeah, needs to do better indoors… sick outside though.

  • jaxstate

    WiMax 1 isnt really widespread in the states yet

  • fresh618

    Hopefully sprint will upgrade to it..

  • TypicalAppleHatingDBAG

    Apple sucks btw.

  • DaveM

    And you can use that much bandwidth for 5 minutes until your 2GB runs out.

  • gee

    good luck selling this crap. Even qualcom is out of the wimax game. the only carriers really looking to deploy wimax (m) are south american countries. Dan Hess of sprint says their even looking into lte as the future. until lte can handle voice the only real choice is hsdpa+ in north america.

    • Ryan

      LTE can handle voice. VZ is testing it as we speak and plans to use it as primary voice. They call it VOLTE. cute eh? (voice over lte)

      • gee

        not true voice but viop.

  • Jon

    Main point skipped over is THEORETICAL. Current WIMAX was rated up to 40Mbit/s, but who’s really seen over 6 average on Sprint 4G?

    Its not much faster in its current form than HSPA. So they say 100, good luck seeing near 20 in the real world.

    • gee

      sorry Jon,

      sprints brand of wimax has a theoretical speed of 10mgb.
      so you only going to 5-6 mgb.

  • Jason

    When I had Clear the fast speed I ever got was 15mbps. But what others are saying is true, itr doesn’t work all that well indoors. And it’s not WiMax, it the spectrum that Clear & Sprint own. That’s one advantage Verizon will have with the 700mhz.

  • Capt.Obvious

    Where’s WiMax 1?

  • jawman

    BGR censoring user posts? What happened to my post where I said that this was old news, and was reported on other tech blogs days ago. Although I do enjoy coming to BGR on a daily basis and reading the articles, it is sometimes like a delayed version of engadget or Gizmodo. Anyone can make their own website and do that.

  • dkorda

    How bout a kickin in the assin flipper dipper?

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