Hungry for more news on all things WiMAX? Make sure to keep your eye out for news on the 5th annual WiMAX World event, a conference that will be taking place from September 30th through October 2nd in Chicago. 150+ exhibitors will be showing off products, developments, and research, and lots of big names in the 4G universe will be there serving as keynote speakers - including representatives from Clearwire, Motorola, Redline, and Sprint's XOHM Network. There will also be several workshops and seminars, such as network deployment. The conference should prove to be very interesting and hopefully we'll find out more information on where carriers are at with their deployment plans and what products we can expect to see hit the market.

A particularly interesting aspect to the conference will be to find out how things are developing in light of the recent reports that WiMAX spending is down across the board this year. The hope, obviously, would be that despite the economic downturn the carriers are still able keep on target with their planned deployment/test dates. The truth, though, is that developing an entirely new sector of technology and accompanying products is not a cheap endeavor, and I would not be surprised if we end up waiting longer for WiMAX than we would like.