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Wimax is 100% not dead and they still own the shares of the company...they just dismissed themselves from the board....its actually a common tactic to bring in other people to the board to make use of their connections and etc. As long as sprint owns over 50% of the company they can get in the board any time they please.

That said I personally think Sprint is out to make themselves go bankrupt and run their partners bankrupt....They made 2 major flaws...

1) Going into wimax with the EVO is fail....and I'm not talking about the device themselves..I'm talking about not thinking it through..instead of going in with 1 device from 1 company they should have pushed Samsung, HTC and LG to give them 3 4g devices. This way you are not bound by 1 manufacturer having supply issues...Sprint seems to forget that you don't make money on selling phones..you make money on selling contracts..

2) Sprint is totally failing at making use of their partners...for example...if they were to use Comcast, Roadrunner and Intel to distribute cable boxes that acted as wimax airwaves they could have had the entire US lit up in wimax pretty darn fast and make money on it. They could have also offer quadruple play packages of cellphone + tv + internet + phone....and they could have had those boxes wired with Google TV included >.>...


but instead they are spending time reinventing the Moment 3x in a year, releasing 1 wimax phone on short supply for 3 month...I mean if you look at it its like they are trying to run themselves out of business...