Sprint Will Bail on LightSquared If No FCC Nod by March
Desperate!
Vmac39 said:
Really? I'm no fan of Sprint but, they've been trying to work out a deal with Light Squared for sometime now. I can't imagine that they would want the deal to fall through but, they can't wait too much longer and hope that LS can gain the FCC's approval. It's not good business and the competition isn't waiting for them. Sprint is already late in the game deploying LTE. Besides, who exactly will they get help from to build out, if the FCC doesn't give LS approval?
I'm no fan of Sprint either but competition is always good in the industry. Sprint is just poorly mismanaged and they make bad decisions. Dan Hesse needs to step down.
I feel that Sprint made a terrible mistake investing in WiMAX....
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Also to the best of my knowledge sprint does not actually have wimax on,any of its own towers. That network is owned and operated entirely by clear.
Iknownothing said:
First, the reason for sprints investment in WiMAX is well documented. They would forfeit the spectrum gained from the Nextel acquisition if they did not deploy a next gen network in a certain time period. Wimax was ready, lte was not, pure and simple.
Also to the best of my knowledge sprint does not actually have wimax on,any of its own towers. That network is owned and operated entirely by clear.
Be that is it may, the rest of the industry was going with LTE. They should have made other plans. I do understand the tough spot they were in however if what your saying is true.
Regarding the towers, Yeah I knew it's entirely operated by Clear but I hear conflicting information rea...
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