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Originally Posted by WisdomWolfX
Ok I see what you are getting at. You made it sound as though all sorts of devices would already support the 21mbps that you keep talking about. I just don't get why you keep going on about how there are now wimax devices when the same can be said for HSPA+. Sure, it might just be a minor tweak, but that still means there are currently 0 devices. So you can't really say that Sprint is behind in that area as you and I don't know definitively what devices, supporting the new standards, will be released in 2010 in either camp.
I love a good debate, but you have to be willing to look at both sides without an opinion in order to see things clearly.
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Well I look at it like this...
T-Mobile has several devices right now that will get 7 meg real world speeds when they turn on the new network. Sprint is advertising their 4G network as getting real world speeds that average 6 megs.
And, again, T-Mobile has a whole bunch of devices capable of this right now. You can bet there will be plenty that support the 21 meg standard going forward. No, they probably won't get real world speeds of 21 megs. But they will certainly get 10 megs or more. It's not uncommon to get 2 meg speeds right now on T-Mobile's 3.6 meg HSPA network.
Now, having said all of that, Sprint, right now, doesn't even have a single phone for it's WiMax network. And this is a network that has been in use for over a year already (first market launched September of 0
. And we're seeing prominent CEOs of device manufacturers basically saying they don't see anybody supporting that technology (see the link I posted earlier). So if you want to make a case that Sprint will have device support, I will need something to back that up. So far all signs point to WiMax being a bust. I hope oit does prove successful, but with everyon else (even Verizon) going LTE, I don;t see how WiMax is going to have any support by device manufacturers.