US Army considering Mobile WiMax for military use

Fresh from showing off its Mobile WiMax wares at the recent 3GSM conference, Samsung's now providing some of its gear to the U.S. Army, who's apparently considering the speedy wireless technology for possible military use. Unsurprisingly, neither party is spilling a whole lot of details on the arrangement, with Samsung only saying that the Army's Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center (or CERDEC) will spend several months evaluating the equipment, measuring the performance of both mobile users and mobile base stations in a military environment, among other undisclosed things. What is fairly clear is how eagerly Samsung will be anticipating the results, as Korea's Hankook newspaper speculates that a deal with the U.S. military could be worth as much as $3 billion for the company.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2007 5:33PM]

and here I was, thinking the US army was considering Mobile WiMax for civilian use......

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2007 7:10PM]

Nothing like military plans floating around the sky in enemy territory eh?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2007 10:10PM]

Enemy One: Damn It! If only we had that wireless password!

Enemy Two: Try "Bush Rulez"

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2007 12:28AM]

good. The Army needs to be more "connected"...and brought more into the 21st century.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2007 7:11PM]

lol

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2007 7:22PM]

I hope they've got 40bit WEP on these things... ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2007 11:37PM]

yey! pretty soon someone will hack the military wimax and Battlefield will never be the same!