The next generation, nicknamed Wider-Fi or Wi-Max, will begin to roll out later this year.

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It is not compatible with current Australian 4G LTE networks and Wi-Max networks.

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Meanwhile, as the valuable spectrum goes unused in TV wasteland, new technologies such as Wi-Fi and Wi-Max must crowd into tiny slivers of unregulated spectrum.

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It has no qualms about switching its network from Wi-Max, the standard it currently uses, to LTE, which appears to be winning the 4G standards battle.

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It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.

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What do these have in common: Google, Blind Date, China, India, Wi-Fi and (just to throw a curve) Max Oshman, the 17-year-old Web designer I wrote about in the last issue?

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