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Originally Posted by tsecreto
My take on Sprint after being with them for 10+ years and in IT for 25+ is that their 3G is quite fast for most things all up the coast fro FL to NY. The 4G is rapidly being deployed and I was shocked when I recently checked to see how many people are covered already. The Palm Pre is touted as 4G ready (I have not verified that since I use the Treo Pro still) but putting out 4G phones will be the easy part.
With Sprint owning 51% of Clear (the 4G guys) and Comcast, Time Warner, Google & Intel as partners do you really think that 4G will fail.
I also just read that Atlanta (or most of it) is now fully 4G ready & operational. This does not even go ito price, try to match SWprint on Price/feature/performance. I do not work for Sprint or own stock, just love technology.
The game can go in almost any direction right now.
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To answer your question, Yes I do think wimax will fail, no 4g. Wimax will fail compared to lte which is why Sprint and its investors are saying they have the only wimax system capable of changing to lte easily. That means they themselves know wimax isn't the future.
Also what alot of people aren't thinking about is the fact that the cell phone game is about to change within the next couple of years. If you think long contracts and high cell phone bills is going to be around that much longer you're wrong, the cell phone game is about to change all together. You just read that 4g is available but att and tmobile have those same speeds available now and with hspa + they will be even faster then wimax. The only problem before was that tmobile's coverage was horrible, supposedly that is changing. Like someone else said they have the cheapest plans with no contract, and just as fast internet. When hspa + turns on we won't need new devices but you will with sprint. All your loyalty to sprint will not pay off, what for?