is anyone actually still using WiMAX

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started
wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support
for it in NM 1.2, given that:

  - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology

  - the Intel WiMAX driver for Linux has never worked very well, and
    the SDK appears to no longer be supported

  - NM's WiMAX support requires a hacked up version of the Intel
    WiMAX SDK that supports libnl3, which exists only in a git
    repository whose location has never been terribly well
    advertised, suggesting most distros probably don't build it
    anyway.

  - Fedora dropped it a few releases back and there was no uproar

Of course this would not affect people using WiMAX via external hotspots
(assuming such people and hotspots still exist).

-- Dan