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Miami, FL | reply to BillRoland
Re: Reality is setting in More or less we all know Sprint has always done things half-assed.
Investors should be worried but more or less I would like some actual world tests of WiMAX in action to see if it even makes sense in the first place to deploy such a technology.
Sprint more or less jumped in the middle of the ring and punched everyone in the face and now is about to receiving a punch back from everyone else.
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| How do you figure? What's half-assed about the EVDO deployment? I've seen many people switch from satellite and dial-up to paying $60/month for EVDO and using a few dollars of actual bandwidth. Using WiMax for the backend and EVDO to the end-user could make for higher speeds and lower costs.
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Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
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Miami, FL | EV_DO is only a short term goal due too it's limitations of 3.1mbps. I have yet to see any video or some sort of specs of someone actually testing WiMAX in a real world test. It pisses me off that nobody has been able to provide it or help me god and give me the link already to the data.
Also half-assed as Sprint can never complete anything towards how they originally set it out to be. Although most people might think that this huge deployment is working, there are still large area's that are not covered.
What I am more interested is seeing a replacement for the CDMA network Sprint currently has, if they can also place calls efficiently on WiMAX, and at longer distances would it not make sense to create WiMAX phones and on top of that with high speed access?
I am sorry but I think CDMA is a legacy network and that we should be looking for alternatives especially which are not from Qualcomm. The wireless industry can improve so much but it might require to dump a entire network to do so.
So if Sprint plans to build a nationwide WiMAX network and specs truly show some promising numbers with real world tests, the legacy network can be used for other means.
After all WiMAX according to specs provide much greater coverage area and speed. Since calls will be going over IP one could also expect prices to drop like a rock compared to the technology we are currently on.
But it all depends on the real world tests WiMAX provides.
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Des Plaines, IL | reply to CMoore2004
said by CMoore2004:What's half-assed about the EVDO deployment? Well, for one it works great in the wealthy subdivision, but go into a not so wealthy area, and no more EV-DO. That's kind of a problem for a mobile user. The system doesn't hand-off between 1xRTT and EV-DO connections, you know. That leaves the suburbs like Swiss cheese when it comes to EV-DO coverage. Fine for fixed use, but not ready for mobile after six years. What would you call that? |
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| The only thing that's half-assed is your information. Do you actually HAVE an EVDO card/phone from Sprint? I by no means live in a wealthy city/county and pretty much everywhere I have Sprint service, I have EVDO. Can you speak from experience that it doesn't hand-off between EVDO and 1xRTT? Because I've been going down the freeway at 70 and entered a 1xRTT area and had no problem. I live on a farm. The entire area has no other broadband coverage. It's not a wealthy area. You have no idea what you're talking about.
And they're supposed to have their entire network EVDO by years-end. Who cares about the hand-off? Come back with some educated misinformation.
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