it seems wimax will be history and some see it even today as a sort of left over. around 2012 the role out of lte can be expected. but that's not in the hand of the engineers, but will be a question of policy and business models. auction anyone?

There has always been a five year period of “euphoria”, followed by a five year period of pain (commercial and/or technical), followed by five years of “pleasure” and another five years of “perfection” which leads to boredom by engineers and back to an euphoric stage. | jane zweig: the crystall ball was clear 10 years ago ... it is clear today

some engineers are bored already with lte and started to work on g4 1/2 and g5, anyhow some others are still thrilled by optimizing algorythms for gsm.

btw re-wording has a kind of tradition in this field: right now they are searching for a new wording for lte, as it doesn't make sense to call it "long term evolution" any longer. some centuries ago they renamed gsm to global system for mobile communication. at the beginng it was anything but global. it was truly european brought to you by the groupe spécial mobile (gsm).