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WiMax is the Sega Dreamcast of the wireless world

SCTelephoneMan

Aug 11, 2008, 11:55 PM
LTE is where it's at...the economies of scale and savings will doom any other "standard."

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.
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eric_cartman

Aug 12, 2008, 1:14 AM
WiMax could actually work. There is potential. The deal is whether Sprint will screw it up with terrible coverage, poor device choices and bad customer service(download caps?).
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VZWKYO

Aug 12, 2008, 9:17 AM
There is always a risk to be 1st to release in technology fioeld since the competition can easilly then try to outdone the person who released the product 1st.
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lonerato

Aug 12, 2008, 2:35 PM
sprint isnt even going to subsidize the devices on wimax. they wont have an issue with coverage considering they have more spectrum for 4g then at&t and verizon togther and that almost any device that has an intel chip in it will be wimax enabled. i just dont see lte chips being put into anything other then phones and data cards.
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scorpio

Aug 12, 2008, 1:26 AM
Are you kidding me?!... LTE is still not proven, it has yet to make it out of a laboratory. Why do you think ATT is trying to block the Sprint/Clearwire merger?? ATT knows Wimax will be widely adopted, the majority of state/local govt's, educational institutions, banks, cable companies, computer manufacturers, etc. All have said they're going Wimax.

By the time LTE goes into field testing Wimax will be at least 3 years old.
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Slammer

Aug 12, 2008, 6:31 AM
Sprint is ahead of everyone else. that's all that matters. they have something that no one else will have for several years. Some of my family that works for Verizon has said that this is a huge deal. The COO of Verizon was quoted as saying that this was a smarter move for sprint than thought. No one expected WiMax to have so many backers. 😎
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crood

Aug 12, 2008, 8:33 AM
It really doesn't matter if Sprint has something first. It doesn't even matter if it's better. The fact is that Sprint phones will be incompatible with nearly every network in the world. Any business user that needs to roam in other countries will go elsewhere. Handset prices will be much lower due to the economies of scale. Sprint will have to heavily subsidize phone prices to compete and that will cut into profits.
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Slammer

Aug 12, 2008, 9:47 AM
if you noticed, sprint has merged with clearwire. this means their concentration is on data. data is the future of communication and the majority of people are not yet groomed for this, but will adapt very quickly. voice calling as you know it is not going to be the same whether it be LTE or WiMax. it is unbeleivable what Wimax and LTE are going to be able to do. You are right it is not a matter of which is better and if you take another look at my blog, I don't believe I claimed WiMax is better. What I said is that they are first and that is what ultimately matters. If LTE was close to deployment, we would not be having this conversation. technically, the Iphone is really no better function wise than any other phone. but what it did was cr...
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algorithmplus

Aug 12, 2008, 7:17 PM
I have to disagree. I do not believe that Sprint will obtain blanket coverage of the entire U.S. population with WiMax. Deploying technologies is expensive, and Sprint/Clearwire won't have any roaming partners. Meanwhile, the LTE companies could concentrate on co-ordinating the deployment and having roaming agreements in place while each company deploys LTE over its entire coverage area.

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

Aug 12, 2008, 8:57 PM
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.
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dave73

Aug 13, 2008, 3:08 AM
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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Slammer

Aug 12, 2008, 11:21 PM
I understand your disagreement. this is why the whole topic is such a sticky subject. this answer I am going to provide is not what will happen but should happen if going forward on plan and the advantages for Sprint:
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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carmodboy99

Aug 12, 2008, 12:31 PM
Sprint keeps a few quad band GSM/CDMA phones in the stable just to deal with this minute [my noot] issue. that is likely not to change at all.
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thatsayssteak

Aug 12, 2008, 8:14 PM
I love how you felt the need the spell minute phonetically as if context wasn't enough.

I guess, with the people that come around here sometimes, you never can know what they might misinterpret.
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carmodboy99

Aug 13, 2008, 12:10 PM
lol yep, pretty much.
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JeffdaBeat

Aug 12, 2008, 9:10 AM
I always say someone always has to be the first to use one thing over another. What about when one carrier decided to use CDMA when the rest of the world was on GSM? Now, CDMA is the best thing when it comes to data transfers...for now. Although the rest of the carriers are jumping on the LTE bandwagon, who's to say that it's the best? Sprint may offer WiMAX and it may force everyone below it to adapt.
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