The new standard is still being developed and leadership of the IEEE working group is undefined, but 802.20, dubbed mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA), touts broadband speeds over cellular coverage areas.
Flarion Technologies is hawking an 802.20 variant called orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which Flarion's Ronny Haraldsvik describes as LAN technology extended to the wide-area network.