MetroPCS Hops on LTE Bandwagon
WiMax is the Sega Dreamcast of the wireless world
UMB and WiMax were DOA when AT&T and Verizon picked LTE. I guess Sprint wants another proprietary network to go along with their iDen disaster.
By the time LTE goes into field testing Wimax will be at least 3 years old.
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If Verizon and Alltel were GSM, Sprint wouldn't be able to roam their CDMA customers on those GSM networks. Likewise, Sprint won't be able to roam WiMax customers on LTE. Remember, Sprint won't just be fighting the other companies for service coverage, it will be fighting a more unified mobile data standard, LTE, which with more service provider ba...
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Trygon said:
WiMax broadcasts in the same range as CDMA signals. So Sprint is going to have a three year head start, all they need now is a huge collection of towers, all across the country, that can broadcast in this particular radio frequency... Oh, wait.
Actually, Sprint has 2.5ghz licenses that they plan to deploy WiMax on. They're not using their PCS spectrum for WiMax (at least not initially). So for now, any handsets Sprint gets for WiMax will probably work on the 2.5ghz band, unless they make them CDMA (850/1900 & WiMax 2500). But it is a fact that they're getting a headstart in deploying a 4G network. But nobody knows if WiMax will succeed yet, considering LTE isn't finalized yet, but nearly e...
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4G spectrum is required for both technologies and the amount that is owned is a huge asset. that is why all the companies have been scrambling for it. Sprint and clearwire however, already had acquired a huge amount of 2.5ghz and since allocated it for Wimax. Now that the two have finally have merged, they own more 4G spectrum than verizon and ATT put together giving them an area advantage. Since LTE and Wimax work on a different platform, transitioning the networks is needed. Building out any network takes time and all carri...
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I guess, with the people that come around here sometimes, you never can know what they might misinterpret.
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