I heard about this about a month ago (they announced it on the anniversary of 802.11 or something) but I haven't heard anything since, so thanks for posting that. It should make poaching wireless a lot easier! I'll be able to jump on the Starbucks wifi from home.

Chances are that with a range of that size, the standard is never going to be for home use in a way that will be substantially different than 11a/b/g/n, focussed on low power transmitter/recievers. Frankly I doubt it'll be even used there, more than likely it'll be for commercial mobile usage, city wide mobile data roaming for example

Wardriving, or in my case warwalking, will be so damn fun! Let's hope that whoever sets up a 802.22 WiFi network will forget to secure it :P.

No kidding. I hope there are at least 30 evenly spaced old people with computers across Canada. Sure, sure, ruin my fun with your logic.

Probably. I'm not sure about Canada but there are requirements for things to be broadcasting without a license. One is the frequency in use, but something that powerful is almost certainly going to be interfering with other devices. I can't imagine that something this powerful is going to be acceptable for unlicensed use.

We already have enough trouble with overpowered 802.11 devices around here and they only get a tiny fraction of that range. Last I checked I had like a dozen or so within range of me on separate networks.

Here too, and we might have more restrictions. In fact, I can't imagine the CRTC allowing this standard at all unless everyone is forced to stream Avril Lavigne periodically to meet the CanCon requirements.

Hehe sorry but its what I'm trained in

Trained in networking that is, not trained specifically in ruining YOUR fun. Not sure they have degrees for that (though the way the job hunting is going it might as well have been my major)

Even if you were allowed to run one of these (and you won't be) you wouldn't like the power bill.

Indeed, this sounds more like WiMax than WiFi.

Well the wikipedia entry describes it as a regional area network so chances are its supposed to be a replacement, probably to run parallel to cell towers

Stick with networking. The ruining my fun field is saturated. You'll never make ends meet.

Well there goes my chances of moving to canada...

Oh, that would still be great. In Belgium, our ISP allows us free hot spot use of wifi anywhere in the country as long as you are a customer but right now, you need to be pretty close to it for the signal to be worth it compared to the mobile network.

Or an alternative to data-over-cellular. But it doesn't look like a substitute or competitor for 802.11 networks. It's a base station to customer design, giving you wireless coverage over a wide area, but not much bandwidth (22 Mbps per network).

It would seem to compete most closely with satellite broadband, by allowing coverage of large unwired areas.