EXHIBIT 23.1

                   CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption "Experts" in the
Registration Statement (Form SB-2) and related Prospectus of World Wireless
Communications, Inc. for the registration of 4,000,000 shares of common stock,
and to the use therein of our report dated March 7, 1997 with respect to the
consolidated financial statements of World Wireless Communications, Inc. and
subsidiaries, and our report dated March 4, 1997 (except for the second
paragraph of Note 2, as to which the date is September 15, 1997), with respect
to the consolidated financial statement of Digital Radio Communications
Corporation and subsidiaries.


                                   /s/  HANSEN, BARNETT & MAXWELL 
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                                   HANSEN, BARNETT & MAXWELL



Salt Lake City, Utah
October 17, 1997