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Sprint to Kill Off WiMax Once and for All On Nov. 6, 2015

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MadFatMan

Oct 7, 2014, 6:57 PM

"Most WiMax subscribers are upgrade eligible due to the age of their device,"

So, if you're just TOTALLY fine with your device and you're in a WiMax rich area..

Your choices are

- Resrve yourself to EVDO 3G 200 kbps to 1.5 mbps.
- commit to 24 months (keep in mind you're out of contract)
- buy a new phone at full msrp
- make monthly payments on your invoice for a new device
- GOTO another carrier.. but have the expenses outlined above

And this fails to address Sprints pre paid customers ... Boost and Virgin Mobile .. many of these customers have WiMax service.

Also Sprint has contracts and commitments to MVNOs to co.tongue to provide WiMax

Plus Sprint has several subscribers that have a dedicated in home WiMax modem by Motorola that has an unlimited WiMax plan attached to.it. What about those subs...
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Organize a class action lawsuit like the other customers that had something Sprint decided to stop providing, so far they have all been successful. I am not being sarcastic.
...
Wi-Max rich area? 1.5MB EV-DO? Who ever heard of such a thing, what do you sleep under a tower?

Lets face it Wi-max sucked, although if Clear in their infinite wisdom would have put external antenna ports on their devices it would have been a whol...
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So by this logic, For should still be manufacturing parts for the Model T because there exists a small number of collectors who still own one?

Time marches on. No technology lasts forever. Sprint has given ample warning.
 
 
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