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Added wimax (closes #21) #25

Closed marcoscaceres closed 9 years ago

igrigorik commented 9 years ago

FWIW, I wouldn't put it under cellular, it's a 802.16 standard.. if anything it's closer to WiFi than cellular bucket. I'd treat it as a separate family, on par with WiFi - i.e. {cellular: [], wifi: [], wimax: [...]}

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

hmm... this means also adding to the enum. If we know that this tech is on the way out, should we really bother?

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

(made the update to the JSON file, btw)

igrigorik commented 9 years ago

"In reference to economies of scale, GSM-HSPA subscribers number in the billions. Even over the next five years, the number of WiMAX subscribers is likely to be quite low. Infonetics Research projects 132 million subscribers by 2016." - source

This report points to a lower subscriber number, but we're still talking tens of millions... And, at least, based on these sources, growing, if its at a very small rate (comparatively speaking).

I'd +1 adding it to the enum.

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

This also shows a lot of usage world wide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

Oki, added. Thanks @igrigorik for the additional data points.

igrigorik commented 9 years ago

lgtm, thanks for making the update!