A WiMax delay in India because the lack of spectrum

Adoption of WiMax in India has slowed because the government has not released sufficient wireless spectrum, an Intel Corp. executive said Wednesday in Bangalore. Intel's advice to global regulatory agencies is that WiMax will need a lot of spectrum because a lot of people will want to connect to the Internet, Maloney said. "Network decisions live with you for a very long time, and when you are looking at spectrum for WiMax, you are making decisions that you need to live with for 10, 20 or 30 years," he added.
Intel expects that the market for Wi-Fi equipment will be larger than for WiMax, Maloney said. Wi-Fi will continue to be popular as a local-area network technology. Intel's intention is that over the next two to three years, the two technologies will merge, with Wi-Fi chips supporting WiMax, and WiMax chips supporting Wi-Fi, he added.