Re:Real life experience with WIMAX (Score 1)

For much of the developed world, the cost is not the construction of the cable ... plastic or metal .. but rather the people cost of actually stringing the "wire". Really rather enormously expensive to replace existing "wire". In new construction, fiber almost always makes sense, but in replacing existing wire - the cost is really quite high. And in some cases ... wireless can provide a higher performance fixed network performance than an existing, ancient, copper wire. But wireless has its best place in applications with mobile devices and in locations where there is no wired infrastructure and not many dollars - the developing world for example.