DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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| Sprint needs to get on GSM family bandwagon
Sprint doesnt realize what it has, its a good alternative, but technological not attract. If Sprint moves to LTE, like Verizon, it will fall into the fold. But Sprint isnt attractive to customers in its present state. With competition coming down the line. Joining the Gsm family will lower its expenses, and will make it more attractive to customers. Sprint should have gone GSM/UMTS when it merged with nextel. Now its again odd man out in standards.
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Go courageously to do whatever you are called to do. fear nothing. - St. Francis de Sales
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flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ
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| the day sprint goes GSM that's the day they will loose me as a customer.
the GSM Crap works well for Europe and Asia. Forget the rest of the world... I only care about what i need to use right here at HOME.
I've seen GSM in acction... I even have a GSM phone it SUCKS! |
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xirian
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY | reply to DaveNJ
You're kidding, right? How would replacing all their current equiptment with gsm lower its expenses? They'd have to keep cdma running for old customers, and add gsm equiptment to the towers. |
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pepe243
@northwestern.edu | reply to flyingjoey
Could you be a little more specific? I hope you understand how the statement you make is pretty pointless.
The zipcode where you used the phone, indoors or outdoors, handset model? |
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DaveNJ
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join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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| reply to xirian
said by xirian  :You're kidding, right? How would replacing all their current equiptment with gsm lower its expenses? They'd have to keep cdma running for old customers, and add gsm equiptment to the towers. Did you notice i said GSM family, which means LTE, which is what Verizon intends to do. So when you mention cdma do you mean version 1 or do you mean evdo ? They have to spend money on Xohm right, how is spending money on Xohm going to help them, when they could just keep up with Verizon and all the others in the world. Lets see there are about 10 companies that went from cdma to GSM, i am sure sprint could handle it. Lets see there Telstra, Vivo, ATT, Cellular One, Dobson.
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Go courageously to do whatever you are called to do. fear nothing. - St. Francis de Sales
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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GSM/HSDPA/LTE path is pretty much limited to cellphone and laptop cards, which comes with royalties and carrier certifications.
WiMAX will potentially be built into any consumer electronics devices that could benefit from being on the Net. Won't happen with LTE.
No one seems to understand the WiMAX business model. It is completely opposite of the cellphone industry. WiMAX is pro-consumer. The cell-phone model is closed, antiquated and almost nazi-like. No wonder Google is favoring WiMAX. |
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DaveNJ
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join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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| said by xenophon :GSM/HSDPA/LTE path is pretty much limited to cellphone and laptop cards, which comes with royalties and carrier certifications. WiMAX will potentially be built into any consumer electronics devices that could benefit from being on the Net. Won't happen with LTE. No one seems to understand the WiMAX business model. It is completely opposite of the cellphone industry. WiMAX is pro-consumer. The cell-phone model is closed, antiquated and almost nazi-like. No wonder Google is favoring WiMAX. Well anyone can pick up an unlocked Gsm phone and use it, so thats not entirely true, but i do agree there needs to more open access, however Sprint needs to decide to survive first. Plus the entrants are coming and companies especially cmda carriers are going feel it most as Metropcs and others enter the market. I do agree on the google concept, not necessarily the tech used. |
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SD6
join:2005-03-26
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said by xenophon :No one seems to understand the WiMAX business model. It is completely opposite of the cellphone industry. WiMAX is pro-consumer. The cell-phone model is closed, antiquated and almost nazi-like. No wonder Google is favoring WiMAX. WiMax technology is not intrinsically pro-consumer nor is GSM technology intrinsically anti-consumer. It is the industry that makes the business model. It is possible to have pro-consumer cellular network or anti-consumer WiMax network.
I agree Sprint did announce policies for Xohm that were pro-consumer. But now, who knows what we will end up with on Xohm... |
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