While LTE will emerge huge American carriers begin in 2011, the WiMax Forum are eager two standards WiMax will be accessible in early 2012. Mr. Declan Byrne, marketing director of the WiMax Forum commerce group, said 2nd WiMax typical (formerly called 802.16m) will be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) concluded in 11/2010, with the certification standards-based tools will be carry out during 2011. While then, he expects the ISPs will start marketable operation in both standards in 2012.

802.16m will be considerably faster than the predecessor of it. Mohammad Shakouri, Vice President of the WiMAX Forum stated the objective for the new WiMAX standard present download speeds more than 100Mbps for the average user. For comparison, the initial Xohm WiMax network from Sprint (commercial launch back in 2008) provides downlink speeds from 3.7 - 5Mbps. But each access point (access point) WiMAX 802.16m will have an area no larger coverage area of 80.6 square kilometers of the current technology WiMax.

802.16m will be backward compatible with 802.16e - Wimax standard is currently in the U.S. operators to use. This means that when the American ISP is upgrading to new standards will be relatively low cost with minimal interruption.