| Desire to be a 'Free social wireless broadband company'? Yeah, clearwire will get you there. No legitimate carrier is going to work with these guys. |
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 pclover
join:2008-08-02
Santa Cruz, CA | Ads And how is it going to be paid for? Targeted ads by building a profile of what you search?
I doubt the case is going to pay for it. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to JasonOD
Re: Desire to be a 'Free social wireless broadband company'? FreedomPop has actually signed an agreement with Sprint, so that once Sprint LTE makes it to a reasonable amount of people you'll see FreedomPop come out with a new, LTE-enabled sleeve. |
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 swintecPremium,VIP
join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME
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| said by iansltx:FreedomPop has actually signed an agreement with Sprint, so that once Sprint LTE makes it to a reasonable amount of people you'll see FreedomPop come out with a new, LTE-enabled sleeve.
I wish Sprint would let there actual subscribers have use of the new LTE network for a few years before signing up these third party "fluff" services.
The EVDO network really took a beating within the last 2 years from these types of arrangements I think, not to mention the iPhone I guess. I have to wonder what sort of QoS there is on the network between a Sprint subscriber and all of these other services who use it. Maybe they dont care?
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | 4G Anywhere ... But here! While I wouldn't expect this company's business model to last too long, 500MB for an iPod user is more than sufficient.
Too bad we have no Clear coverage. |
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Re: Desire to be a 'Free social wireless broadband company'? Like I said, no legitimate carrier is going to work with these guys. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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Maybe they're trying to lose less money than they already are, by signing up as many MVNOs as they can because their absolute cost per subscriber (billing, etc.) is low?
As a postpaid customer of Sprint with a high-end phone and reasonably high-end plan (it's basically the entry-level Everything Data plan, but cheaper and with more features) I'd say bring on the extra customers if they're using LTE; Sprint will have plenty of capacity on that network, unlike their EvDO one, and my bet is that they won't sell unlimited-data buckets to MVNOs other than their own (Boost/Virgin), so people won't abuse the system too much. |
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kaila
join:2000-10-11
Lincolnshire, IL | reply to swintec
said by swintec:....The EVDO network really took a beating within the last 2 years from these types of arrangements I think, not to mention the iPhone I guess. I have to wonder what sort of QoS there is on the network between a Sprint subscriber and all of these other services who use it. Maybe they dont care?
They do QoS very well. I have kids using Virgin Mobile and it can be a very different experience depending. For sure 3g data is very 2nd class for MVNO's.
Not every site employs this but at O'Hare airport (we live in the Chicago area), Sprint's cell sites use dynamic PRL's to shunt off Virgin (and presumably all MVNO's) when conditions warrant. I've witnessed my daughters VM phone go from full signal to no signal in an instant as cell sites become invisible.
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join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to elray
Not in Cheyenne more stuff for the landfill. |
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jrr7
join:2001-08-20
New York, NY | This sounds like a great way to pay $99 for twenty days of wireless service before the company declares bankruptcy and leaves you with a paperweight. |
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| No thanks It isn't that I don't like the concept, but I wouldn't put any money into anything running on Clearwire's network. Just my observation, but it's at a dead end. No further expansion, even when they could have simply snagged Open Range's network and instantly increased their coverage. The way I see it, Clearwire's WiMAX network is a dead end, and the entire company may also be. There's no way I'd buy anything that runs on it right now. |
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