USA To Be WiMaxed By 2007?

Last night I attended a recording of a special Charlie Rose show where Charlie interviewed Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg. Ivan talked about his multi-billion dollar investment into "glass", i.e.installing fibre optic cables into millions of homes. I wonder what he thinks of thisstatement by a US government official suggests that many of those homes will have high speed WiFi access even by next year. Doesn’t that make that strategy a little unnecessary, no?

EE Times Article

(Full write up of Charlie Rose interviews with Verizon & Google CEOs next week)