 KSUJaceGolden Flash
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Chicago, IL | What Happened to 1Q 2008 Chicago Launch? The firm chose CES to announce that Chicago and Washington, D.C. should get that coveted 4G service "by year-end 2007, with a larger rollout encompassing at least 100 million people by year-end 2008." So much for those plans. |
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| They ran into backhaul issues for each site in Chicago and didn't have the billing system ready yet. Baltimore might be first now because it's a smaller area, so easier to get fewer sites the backhaul they need. |
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| I'd say that the billing issues were the real problem, which AFAIK they didn't mention prior to this latest round of developments. The backhaul issue seems to be "solved" with exactly what some watchers suggested, wireless PtP backhaul & dark fiber, which certainly (?) doesn't belong to Sprint. I hope they're able to make steady progress on this now without any major hiccups so that we can put WiMax thru its paces. |
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said by KSUJace:The firm chose CES to announce that Chicago and Washington, D.C. should get that coveted 4G service "by year-end 2007, with a larger rollout encompassing at least 100 million people by year-end 2008." So much for those plans. It's a stretch to call '16e mobile WiMax "4G" since it isn't initially focused on voice. The public thinks of 2G, 3G, 4G as better voice and faster data. As in EV-DO RevA and on (HSPDA is, what, a fish out of water?).
Sprint does have guts to do this, given people don't like to pay much for data-only bandwidth. |
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