12 Facts About Mobile WiMAX

Mobile WiMAX Forum was formed in June 2001 to promote conformity and interoperability, including the definition of system profiles for commercial vendors.

Mobile WiMAX adopted some of its technology from WiBro, a service marketed in Korea.

Mobile WiMAX was sometimes referred to as "Wi-Fi on steroids" and can be used for a number of applications including broadband connections, cellular backhaul, hotspots, etc.

Scalable physical layer architecture that allows for data rate to scale easily with available channel bandwidth and range of Mobile WiMAX make it suitable for the following potential applications:.

Mobile WiMAX was a replacement candidate for cellular phone technologies such as GSM and CDMA, or can be used as an overlay to increase capacity.

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Aeronautical Mobile WiMAX Airport Communication System is a wireless broadband network for the airport surface intended to link the control tower, aircraft, and fixed assets.

Mobile WiMAX is more similar to Wi-Fi than to other 3G cellular technologies.

Mobile WiMAX MAC uses a scheduling algorithm for which the subscriber station needs to compete only once for initial entry into the network.

Mobile WiMAX Forum is a non profit organization formed to promote the adoption of Mobile WiMAX compatible products and services.

Those that pass conformance and interoperability testing achieve the "Mobile WiMAX Forum Certified" designation, and can display this mark on their products and marketing materials.

Early WirelessMAN standards, The European standard HiperMAN and Korean standard WiBro were harmonized as part of Mobile WiMAX and are no longer seen as competition but as complementary.

Worldwide, by early 2010 Mobile WiMAX seemed to be ramping quickly relative to other available technologies, though access in North America lagged.