Originally Posted by beq

I've been wondering about this too...

I guess for Internet access they can get by with say a couple of hundred Kbps for each user? Then again the 11a 5GHz channels would've allowed a lot more people in the same spot to have usable bandwidth... How about the upcoming 11n? Then again 11n allows wide 40MHz frequency channels that might make sharing among multiple users even worse?

Will city-wide Wi-Fi become obsolete if WiMax does take off?