Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

[Stuart Longland <stuartl vrt com au>]

On 11/02/15 11:27, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > […]
> >
> > Of course this would not affect people using WiMAX via external hotspots
> > (assuming such people and hotspots still exist).
>
> Debian (and Ubuntu) never enabled WiMAX support in our packages. I don't
> have plans to enable it in our Debian packages either.
> So from my PoV, feel free to drop WiMAX support.

Probably worth pointing out, here in Australia there's been a move to
get better Internet coverage in rural areas using fixed-wireless broadband.

There's talk of that being based on "WiMAX 2", so there could be more
demand for WiMAX support in Linux in the future.
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