I was excited about WiMAX a few years ago. This 'internet on the go' was to be my next step up from WiFI on my N800. Things were looking good in Canada if you believed the hype. I hadn't used a cell phone for years because of the sorry state of the industry, I was happy with SIP over WiFI especially when I traveled and was still local as far as phone calls were concerned. I only missed the gap between short distance WiFI and more widely available 3G. But I saved lots of money and voice mail filled the gap.
Well here we are and little has come of WiMAX unless you live in the right place. I don't, sorta. WiMAX is here but you'd be hard pressed to see the term used, they call it other things and is primarily targeted at areas that can't get anything else. This means two things, it is high priced, slow, and locked down. You need their brick modem that isn't portable without a 120v outlet. I can't bring my own device and if they ever do allow it it will no doubt be the same overpriced crap we usually get here.
However with the birth of Android and a generous boss I'm finally on a cell phone after all these years. Android made using a cell service tolerable but if I had to pay for it I'd still be strictly on SIP. Now I can do both.
Just for fun try calling up a provider that has WiMAX but doesn't call it that. It is like asking for a fish sandwich at mcdonald's, "what's that?". Pitiful same ole same ole.
