The situation is different in industrialized nations, where the rollout of WiMax is already well underway. For example, more than 75% of U.S. citizens have access to a PC.
One company hedging its bets with 3G and WiMax is Sprint, which is the only major mobile phone service provider that has committed to WiMax. Sprint says it will spend $3 billion on the technology in the United States, and it has some powerful partners in the effort in Motorola, Samsung, and WiMax technology pioneer Intel.
The WiMax Forum wants to make WiMax so inexpensive that one day it'll be a commonplace technology in most electronic devices.
"When Intel starts rolling out its Wi-Fi/WiMax chip, WiMax only adds $5 to the cost of Wi-Fi," WiMax Forum VP of marketing Mohammad Shakouri told the Reuters news service at the Hong Kong event. "The pricing of components will be reasonable. We'll try to push for very low cost devices."
Verizon is demoing crowd analytics technology that uses 5G along with AI and mobile edge computing to give stadium operators insights into the flow of fans throughout a venue.
As we move closer to fully realizing the potential of Wi-Fi 7, it becomes evident that the RF, signaling, and throughput tests are not merely procedural checkpoints but the pillars of excellence in wireless communication.
With low earth orbit (LEO) satellites fast becoming the norm and 3GPP unifying telecom standards around the globe, the satellite IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) sector ought to be looking at a bright horizon. But is this the case?
