| Sounds great... ...But will the coverage deliver?
I like the idea of buying the hardware up-front, at full price, with no contract or commitment. This could really set a precedent. |
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| Sprint plans to rollout to 70m pops by end of next year and Clearwire to do about 30m, for a total of 100m by end of 2008. They will supposedly roam seamlessly to each other.
Sprint's map...
Clearwire's current fixed service, which will expand quite a bit next year to mobile...
»clearwire.com/store/service_areas.php |
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I imagine the coverage will deliver. I've guessed for a few years now that Sprint would be trying to migrate everything to IP (as would the other carriers), so I imagine one way or another you'll get covered, assuming you're not too far from telephone service and/or electricity.
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 Fubar
join:2001-02-20
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:2 | reply to xenophon
Damn 2009-2010 Bring it on sooner... lol |
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1 edit | said by Fubar:Bring it on sooner... lol ClearWire will be doing others next year, like Seattle, Portland and I'm guessing Denver, Minneapolis and Atlanta.
Nearly all of the major markets should have WiMAX by end of 2008 to early 2009. EVDO will still be a decent backup for those who get a combo WiMAX/EVDO laptop card or phone. |
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Re: Sounds great... »www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar···004/1002
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Xohm currently has 10,000 sites in preparation for WiMAX infrastructure, 1,750 base stations ordered for delivery this year, 20,000 antennas ordered, 2,000 backhaul links ordered from third parties and 8,000 Sprint backhaul links in deployment, West said.
“We’re not building one network, we’re building two,” he said. WiMAX requires a much faster backhaul than traditionally used T1 lines to truly deliver on its capability, West said, and as such Sprint-Nextel Corp. is building a new backhaul network as well.
With that backhaul system in place “we’ll be able to deliver three to five (Mbps) on the downlink and two to four (Mbps) on the uplink,” he added.
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Re: Damn 2009-2010 said by xenophon:said by Fubar:Bring it on sooner... lol ClearWire will be doing others next year, like Seattle, Portland and I'm guessing Denver, Minneapolis and Atlanta. Nearly all of the major markets should have WiMAX by end of 2008 to early 2009. EVDO will still be a decent backup for those who get a combo WiMAX/EVDO laptop card or phone. Thanks Xenophon. Earlier this year, Sprint awarded the network buildout contracts for Seattle, Portland and Denver to Nokia. »gigaom.com/2007/03/26/sprints-li···details/
But those cities don't even appear on the map you posted. Do you know what happened to the contract? Is the map from Xohm or did you get it from another source? |
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Same here. I'm in Hopewell,VA. Hopewell is part of the Richmond cover area. |
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| reply to SD6
I think the date of that article is before the agreement with Sprint/Clearwire to share the rollout and not overlay each other in a makret. I thought I've read Clearwire would be doing Portland/Seattle since they are already there with fixed WiMAX. |
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 tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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Re: Sounds great... said by pabster:...But will the coverage deliver? I like the idea of buying the hardware up-front, at full price, with no contract or commitment. This could really set a precedent. No, it's old news. You can buy a sprint phone now w/o contract but you pay full price for the phone. Been that way for the 8 years I've had Sprint service. 
As far as the dates. I heard Detroit was Feb 08. At least that's the projection. At 30, even 40 bucks . Bye Bye WOW. They will need to put the cost right at or below current local HSI if they want to really make a dent into the market. Bet this will also strain the ties between Sprint and big cable since they offer services to 4 major cable players who offer wireless service. I think Sprint would rather just deal with the back bone/haul rather then the eqp side anyway. They have the POP's and central offices (switches) to handle it all but the cell techs have to be getting burnt out.  |
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