Sprint Promises WiMax for Major Markets in 2010
What about rural areas....
If the rural area is a legacy Clearwire market it will get WIMAX sooner since there is less buildout needed.
The cost for towers, maint, access fee's and etc, just to cover 20 customers? GTFOH
these towers only cover a X amount of area and since rural area's only cover about 1 person per square mile its not worth it right now. Just wait till some other company builds the network and then just rent the towers on a roaming agreement.
flip mode said:
all i'm wondering is why not also put 4G in rural areas too especially when there people who live there arent allowed many or any choices next to satellite. or if you're passing thru and you're on a call or using data and now you have to wait until you come back to civilization. i live in detroit and when you go into the burbs there are huge service gaps.
I'm in Gary Indiana, and WiMAX isn't even offered in my area (and I'm part of the Chicago market). My area isn't that hard to get covered with WiMAX, but rural areas will be more difficult to cover with higher frequencies. That's why you don't find many PCS carriers in rural areas. Also, as with many areas of the country, you have to de...
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I think LTE will be behind the power curve for a long time. However with Verizon propaganda artists it will be spun as if it is the only real 4G choice and people will believe them.
Compared to Sprint/Clear, Verizon and AT&T will not have as much bandwidth to utilize which could effect pricing and performance in the long term.
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