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Originally Posted by p-slim
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?
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Out of sheer curiosity why do you think that WiMax will fail on a technical level? It seems to have quite good range and a solid backing for burn money until they can try to become profitable. Here in Chicago they are really pushing it hard and the 4G roll out for Sprint is quite impressive as far as range (40 miles outside of Chicago there is 4G coverage). Now I can't speak to speeds over that range as WiMax speeds decrease with range in theory, but so far the attempt for a wider area roll out is impressive from a coverage level.