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Re: PTT on TP2?

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Originally Posted by rorytmeadows View Post
What's misleading a lot of people is statements going around about when this stuff is coming. Your information about Spring and the WiMax, needing specialty-made stuff sounds like an awful future, reminiscent of HD DVDs. Sprint looks to be the first on the 4G market next year, with plans to release in large metro areas, but Verizon expects continental roll-out in 2014-2015 and only 20-30 markets in 2010. True 4G coverage is not that close.

Which as a T-Mobile customer doesn't worry me too much. I was surprised to hear T-Mobile said they weren't in development for 4G, but they have been very hush-hush about everything. Rumors for them to buy out Sprint make such a statement understandable. Plus, I think T-Mobile is ready to "flip a switch" to turn on 3G+ in every 3G market they have. They just met their goal to cover 200 pops in 4 months.
Well Verizon may be late to the party, or they may not- we don't know for sure yet. But what we do know is the rest of the world has already commited to LTE as their 4G technology. So Sprint getting WiFi rolled out before Verizon rolls out LTE, will be basically the same as Sprint rolling out EVDO before AT&T and Verizon had nationwide 3G. Sprint beat AT&T to the punch, but AT&T still got all the devices. Look for that to happen again, only much worse this time around. I mean, at least Verizon and some Canadian carriers (and various carriers around the world) were using EVDO with Sprint. None of them have committed to WiMax though, so Sprint will be hard pressed to find device support.
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