yahtzee
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join:2000-12-03
Richmond, VA | Saving grace
IMO, this could be the diamond in the rough for Sprint.
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WiseOldNerd
De gustibus non est disputandum
Premium
join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ | Interestin
This announcement about Portland is rather interesting in light of the fact that a wifi system just shut down in Portland (Oregon) a month or so ago.
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MooJohn
join:2005-12-18
Milledgeville, GA | WiFi and WiMax have nothing in common except they both start with "Wi" WiFi requires hundreds or thousands of access points while WiMax needs a handfull for the same coverage.
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ncone1952
Premium
join:2006-06-08
Wallace, NC | reply to WiseOldNerd
There is a Portland Maine. lol |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL
 ·Cox VOIP
·Skype
 ·Cox HSI
 ·AT&T Southeast
·magicjack.com
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Re: Saving grace
said by yahtzee  :IMO, this could be the diamond in the rough for Sprint. Sprint just bought a loser unlike Nextel, which they ruined under the idiocy of that CEO they fired.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | vaporware
More vaporware.
They are running out of things to generate PR. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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Re: Saving grace
said by supergirl :said by yahtzee :IMO, this could be the diamond in the rough for Sprint. Sprint just bought a loser unlike Nextel, which they ruined under the idiocy of that CEO they fired. Psst.. Nextel was RUINED by Don-a-hoe way before Sprint stepped in. IMO.. Sprint should have waited till they WERE bankrupt then bought them for pennies on the dollar. Then, handed all those walkie-talkie freaks a QChat phone and shut down iDen by end of this year.  |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| Sprint runied Nextel and the deal when they started to ship things out of the country and use the untrained Sprint reps to handle Nextel issues. Also they could have had the Nextel brand disolved by now if they would NOT have let people migrate from Sprint to Nextel and allow people to sign up with Nextel. They should have only allowed Sprint sign ups.
Nextel would be gone today along with Boost. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to patcat88
Re: vaporware
sounds like your jealous that Clearwire won't be providing it to you. |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL | reply to tc1uscg
Re: Saving grace
Yeah, Donahoe was a Ho.  |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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Re: vaporware
said by hottboiinnc :sounds like your jealous that Clearwire won't be providing it to you. On the contrary. I will be getting it way before you.
Here is a density map of Toledo.
»factfinder.census.gov/servlet/Th···Identify
note the highest possible value for the color bar on the left is 16192 for Toledo
meanwhile, anything which isn't white (if its beige its higher), in my city, has a higher density than ANY place in Toledo.
»factfinder.census.gov/servlet/Th···Identify
Guess who will be getting Wimax sooner? |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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Re: Saving grace
Sprint shouldn't have bought Nextel at all. The two networks are incompatible, and there really aren't many synergies available without destroying one of the two networks.
By the way, "hand those walkie-talkie freaks a QChat phone" was essentially Nextel's long-term plan as well. That's why they got all that spectrum that's now being used for WiMax, the plan was to use data technology to build a network that could provide push-to-talk and also high data speeds (which iDEN does not do). At least, this is what I've heard, can't really confirm if it's true. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to patcat88
Re: vaporware
i could careless about WiMax. Doesn't do anything for me. I'm happy with my Internet from Buckeye.
But you're the one on here saying its vaperware not me. So it does sound like you're jealous that you won't get it.
And just because thats what the Census has to say doesnt mean thats what data their using to deploy. Ohio already has Clearwire in Dayton so no big deal. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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Re: Saving grace
said by hottboiinnc :Sprint runied Nextel and the deal when they started to ship things out of the country and use the untrained Sprint reps to handle Nextel issues. Also they could have had the Nextel brand disolved by now if they would NOT have let people migrate from Sprint to Nextel and allow people to sign up with Nextel. They should have only allowed Sprint sign ups. Nextel would be gone today along with Boost. Well, there's a saying.. "sometimes it's better to sit there and look like a fool instead of opening your mouth and proving your are one"... Nextel falsified records by sending out replacement phones to customers with busted phones, marking them up as NEW ACCOUNTS therefore inflating numbers of how many customers they had. I do agree, Sprint took a F'd up company and screwed it up more because they took too much time in weeding out all the problems. Nextel had let their network (eqp) go to crap and did not upgrade, hoping for a buyer. Then here comes Sprint. So, unless you KNOW for a fact I'm wrong about them being screwed up BEFORE sprint stepped in, you might want to go back, do a little research on the matter, then come back begging for forgiveness.  (rumor mill or not, the company WAS in DEEP DEEP trouble before they were "merged" with Sprint. They are STILL paying for this mistake bigtime.  |
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