Cometh the moment cometh the WiMAx.

Here comes the Wimax technology to India. Its no different than 3G and its foray on Indian soil prior to its competitor  3G will capsize the latter plans. The WiMAx forum chairman Ron Resnick is in no mood of competing over the  "bandwidth" - both spectrum wise and user wise. The only one to start work is TTL , which has finished the division of work over many circles all over India. Companies shouldn't overlook the possibility in the entertainment sectors with the advent of PSPs , XBOX PS3 etc. - most of the online gaming sector is up for grabs. But the bone of contention is its similarity in speed with 3G. The internet access is going to be more or less same with both the technologies and wimax entering first might just sours the plans. Prima facie is 3G is going to struggle really hard and the 'valley of death ' in its initial period will prove difficult .

There is a little relief that comes to rescue of 3G is that the major phone players like Nokia and SE have phones ranging from 7000/- to 10,000k . But the grapevine says that 3G was not successful in the west (although work on 4g has started).

Although wimax forum formally says '3G and wimax area complementary technology'- but the short and long of it is waiting to be seen.