Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

[Stuart Gathman <stuart gathman org>]

> Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship:
> > 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).
WiMax by its nature encourages locked, proprietary end points, so it is 
primarily used with an external hotspot.  This is not a bad thing - buy 
the proprietary hotspot, and you have WiMax internet anywhere in Jordan, 
for instance.  But it would be an uphill slog to support directly 
connecting to proprietary networks, and I have yet to see an open WiMax 
network.

So my 2 cents would be to shelve support until there is WiMax network 
that can use it.  (Does anyone know of one operating today?)