Sprint's WiMax Venture In Flux
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Sprint is up against some pretty huge (and growing) competition. Some of which have some substantial foreign backing. As Sprint's market-share shrinks and the US dollar weakens, it becomes more feasible for a big foreign company to pick it up.
BluetoothGuy said:
Anyone else think that this might speed up the BT purchase of Sprint?
If sprint gets taken over it could be by “Big Red†(VZW)…same technology, same frequencies (well VZW has 900 mhz) and sprint has some valuable spectrum that verizon could use; the IDEN side with be put on the auction block ‘cause:
1) Its useless and can’t really be integrated on CDMA –at least cheaply.
2) To calm down the regulators and the anti-monopoly comments…
Imagine VZW 65+ million consumers added to Sprints’ CDMA 30+ million… now you are almost dealing with 100 million consumers!! lol, almost scary, imagine if the network goes down; 100 million angry souls...
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Sprint, until it uses one technology will be 2 companies, hence the name Nextel still attached to it.
All they had to do is divest these 2 companies, the CDMA side will be acquired by VZW or somebody else and the IDEN side assimilated into the GSM people ( ATT or T-Mobile).
Not that hard to do and about the government, if they right people get a little “incentive†the government will find a excuse to say it’s alright… I can see it ….“Verizon is an American company so it’s better to for Sprint ...
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We're way off topic here though.
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