WiMax has just recieved a huge boost from the United Nation’s body that regulates telecommunications. The emerging technology has been endorsed as a wireless standard.

WiMax is super fast and could make the distribution of big video files via mobile devices more practical.  In May I interviewed Motorola’s CTO Padmasree Warrior who frames the significance of WiMax and mobile video.

Here’s the embed code of this interview.

Update 10/23:  WiMax business is on fire: Cisco has just bought Navini Networks for $330 million.

Here is the company press release.

— Andy Plesser