sirwoogie
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join:2002-01-02
Carleton, MI
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Re: Sprint targeting Wimax to cities; where it is least needed
Keep in mind the cities listed are really "areas." When they announced rev. A for Detroit, most of the sticks around the area lit up at the same time. Translate when they say Detroit, this typically means Southeastern-lower Michigan. For other top-level cities, this is also the case.
Remember, this is being marketed first as a roaming broadband offering, and secondarily a last resort long reach for people with no other broadband option besides satellite.
At least for now, Sprint has been pretty genuine in their offerings so far. Take a look at their coverage maps now. They hit some pretty remote areas with at least Rev. 0. That's more than I can say for most other carriers. Bad mouthing them at this point seems pretty disingenuous.
I live in a semi-rural area with approx 15 housholds per "block." It'd be a cold day in hell before AT&T (2,000 ft. to from from CO) and Charter (750ft. from tap) run service for me. Hell, Verizon can't even provide EVDO service to our area. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I live in a fairly urban (suburban ?) area of Los Angeles, and Cingular doesn't even offer 3G here.. they may by the end of the year. I wonder why they're not purching WiMAX in Los Angeles ? |
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ksw_92
join:2001-05-13
La Verne, CA | LA will get WiMax from two or more providers in the next few years. There's a lot of stuff that needs to happen in the LA market first; transition the ITFS band users to the MBS being the first step. |
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