In another move that should make mobile music listening (including via internet streaming and broadcasting) a reality, USAToday reports that "Intel, AT&T and other corporate giants are throwing their weight behind a new wireless Internet service powerful enough to send a signal more than 5 miles."

"…That corporate support is a big endorsement for the still-emerging technology, which probably won’t become common until 2007, tech analysts say."

"…Support from Intel and other giants "is the big reason that (WiMax) is the real thing," says Internet analyst David Willis of researcher Gartner.

"WiMax is essentially high-powered Wi-Fi, the kind of wireless Internet now common in coffee shops. Wi-Fi’s range is much shorter, usually enough to cover only one or two buildings."

"A single WiMax antenna can beam high-speed Internet to entire neighborhoods. That means it could:

– Bring high-speed Internet to hard-to-reach areas. It’s expensive to run broadband cable to homes and businesses in rural areas…

– Give a wired broadband alternative…

– Offer access on the go. WiMax initially will act much like wired broadband."

Read the entire USAToday artcile here.