Deutsche Telekom Considering Sprint Nextel Bid
End of WiMax?
WiMAX is deployed by many countries overseas and a T-Mobile/Sprint Merge would create an awesome footprint for WiMAX. Whether an individual hates WiMAX or not, does not control prices. Having two competing entities does. You should hope WiMAX survives my friend. If you find that you don't like WiMAX, Then go to LTE. But leave the choice factor alone.
Jayshmay said:
I think type of technology doesn't matter to most consumers. It's speed & price that matter to the avg consumer. I could've sworn I heard someone saying Clear's WiMax network is capable of 13mbps, hmm, I wonder if there's any truth to that.
WiMax is only in the 2.5ghz band right now. That is also handled thru Clearwire. Sprint hasn't decided to launch WiMax in the PCS spectrum. If T-Mobile were to acquire Sprint, then I would see capacity added to GSM, and possibly either UMTS or LTE used in the PCS band. Who knows if T-Mobile would be interested in keeping a possible stake in Clearwire or sell it. I could see them selling Nextel, as it would have no use for them. T-Mobile would also h...
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I know what I'm about to say is beyond the U.S., but both Verizon and ATT have international data roaming, though it's frinking astronimically expensive.
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Jumping from CDMA to GSM would. I doubt this deal goes anywhere as that would leave Verizon as the only major carrier of CDMA technology.
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