I can’t entirely blame WiMax on Intel. I only saw it from the sidelines, but I had a laptop with integrated WiMax (complete with Intel chipset and an apparently

I can’t entirely blame WiMax on Intel. I only saw it from the sidelines, but I had a laptop with integrated WiMax (complete with Intel chipset and an apparently functional antenna) in a market where Sprint had their much hyped SDR network, and they had WiMax working enough for their trade show folks to demonstrate it. But it was not one of their launch markets, so they… didn’t launch. They literally refused to take my money and sell me service. I don’t care how well Intel executes and how well your launch market functions, if you’re selling a product that caters to business travelers and users, you had better actually be willing to sell the thing, across a large swath of the country, or it will fail regardless of how good it is.