Speakeasy rolling out WiMax for downtown Seattle

WiMax, which is sort of like a long-range version of WiFi, is finally getting real deployment, with Speakeasy getting ready to test out WiMax Internet service before the end of the year in downtown Seattle. Unlike WiFi, this isn't gonna be one of those maybe-I-can-find-it-free-at-a-coffeeshop kinds of things. They're going to be charging roughly $650 per month for a 3 megabits per second wireless connection.