The existence of a cost-effective, modern leading edge alternative to the traditional wireline broadband products most commonly used in the US and International communities today will foster competition---resulting in lowered prices and enhanced services for all consumers.  Widespread adoption of WiMAX can adroitly accomplish this goal. 

Rural areas seeking economic development through the recruitment of industry gain an important tool to attract enterprise customers to more remote areas.  Internationally, countries with only modest broadband penetration could achieve rapid broadband penetration by utilizing WiMAX systems. 

WiMAX promises to help close the gap in areas where traditional broadband has not been economically viable and residents have suffered with inferior Internet connectivity.  WiMAX products offer leaps forward in technological capabilities including high data rates delivered in mobile applications, super fast network deployments, disaster support capabilities from temporary networks and much more. 

Also, much like with the Wi-Fi wireless technology, devices including laptops and PDAs will soon feature multi-mode cards that incorporate WiMAX along with Wi-Fi and/or cellular connection capabilities.  The potential convenience of achieving connectivity through multiple sources is very convenient for both corporate and residential consumers.

And finally, the advent of highly graphical smartphone handsets such as Apple's iPhone have underscored the need for bandwidth that users immediately began accessing once they had a simple interface and platform that made it easy to do so.  This new age of device functionality facilitated a previously unknown pent-up demand by consumers for more services.  And it also exposed the potential capacity problems that traditional wireless networks and even 3G networks may have in providing the rich content that users now expect.  WiMAX and WiMAX inspired competitors like LTE will offer users a much more robust solution to broadband wireless needs.