Australian Company Calls WiMax a Disaster.

"After warning the audience that WiMax 'may not work' and that it was still 'mired in opportunistic hype,' [Garth Freeman, the CEO of Australian company Buzz Broadband] proceeded to slam particular shortcomings of the technology, saying its non-line of sight performance was 'non-existent' beyond just 2 kilometers from the base station. He also said that indoor performance decayed at just 400m and that latency rates -- a measure of the delay before any given data transmission begins -- reached as high as 1000 milliseconds."