Vladimir Senkov

Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits?

Guys with negative comments seem to be missing the key point of the article. The question the author was trying to answer isn't about wimax being great or not for consumers.
I'm sure this will not be a negative for the consumer. It will either be useless (worst case scenario) or great (best case scenario) or somewhere in between. Either way consumer doesn't lose. Question the article attempts to focus in is that of investment. Lots of folks invested have in this technology, one way or another. Some industry players who haven't invested in it directly might be able to benefit from its rollout. All the author was trying to do here was to figure out who stands to benefit from their investment or market position, if anyone. Yes he ends up with a cynical conclusion, but that doesn't mean he is wrong.
I sort of agree that Intel is more likely to benefit from this long term versus, for example, Sprint.
Consumer might benefit eventually, but that will require someone other than Sprint to roll out another wimax network. I doubt switching to wimax from other technologies, fixed and to a lesser extent mobile, will make sense until Sprint has some competition there.