A Galician company has launched a shop online for wi-fi products: Comprawifi.com. The business has 530 articles distributed in 82 categories, as well as a section for manuals and practical cases for installations.

Companies don’t only show interest in WiMAX by launching new equipments or infrastructures. The North-American Samsung subsidiary for venture capital, for example, has just invested 20 millions of dollars to finance Beceem Communications. This is the main maker of chips for the wireless technology.

The last 7th of December, the IEEE approved the new mobile WiMAX standard 802.16e, that allows moving terminals to use this wireless communication system. Many hardware makers and operators were waiting for this decision to start the installation of WiMAX networks. Now they can go ahead.

Technology evolves too quickly. While mobile phone operators are still trying to install UMTS in every city, a new system, much quicker, suddenly emerges: HSDPA (High Speed Downloading Packet Access). The first network to use this technology will be working in November in the Isle of Man, Great Britain.

Iberbanda has been asked to install WiMax in rural areas in Castile and Leon by the committee of this autonomous region. This operator, sponsored by El Corte Inglés and Prisa, is already carrying out similar projects in Andalusia (the first area in Spain where they started to experiment with the wireless technology), Catalonia and Navarre.