BillRoland
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join:2001-01-21
Ocala, FL
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| Taking too long Its taking too long for Clearewire to build out coverage. AT&T and Verizon will be rolling out LTE across their footprint long before Clearwire is able to establish a competitive threat at the rate they're moving now.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
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| Re: Taking too long There's a good possibility.
WiMAX may be able to deliver product, however, its been hype for so long now (few years?), that WiMAX will be not a direct competitor to LTE, but more of a niche service offering, which will probably not bring in the revenue needed.
The 'good' part is that WiMAX isn't a fixed service offering, and can be implemented for just about any purpose.
Kind of like a flexibility of bluetooh/WiFi, with range of cellular (if not better), but running in licensed airspace.
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BillRoland
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join:2001-01-21
Ocala, FL
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| Re: Taking too long said by TKJunkMail  :said by BillRoland :Its taking too long for Clearewire to build out coverage. AT&T and Verizon will be rolling out LTE across their footprint long before Clearwire is able to establish a competitive threat at the rate they're moving now. Clearwire has some big money backers(Comcast, Intel, Google). The question is how long will they keep funding things if Clearwire doesn't move more quickly in establishing itself and signing up large numbers of customers. The stockholders for Comcast, Google, & Intel will start complaining to their boards if progress isn't made. They won't pump money down a rat hole for very long. I have to agree, Clearwire better not be expecting too many more bailouts by the big guys, unless results show up fairly soon I think the investments are going to dry up pretty quick.
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
·Comcast
| Re: Taking too long I don't see how they could possibly get a quick return on investment. The municipalities won't pony up for it, Americans are getting gouged across the board for services that are already being rendered. I just do not see it happening!
Nice avatar bill.
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a333
A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY | LTE? It's not even out of the labs yet innit? 'Least WiMax has been adopted in the real world... | |
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join:2007-09-17 | Re: Taking too long Say what? ATT doesn't even have 1/5 the 3G area coverage that Sprint and Verizon have. | |
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MarkyD
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join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK
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| Re: Taking too long said by xenophon :Say what? ATT doesn't even have 1/5 the 3G area coverage that Sprint and Verizon have. that was my point. I may have worded it poorly, I was saying that AT&T's 3g coverage is abysmal. | |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | It's because Clearwire can't really make a move until the merger is approved. Once approved they absolutely must move fast and get WiMAX into as many markets as they can to get traction. | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Re: Taking too long The current Clearwire has spectrum assets of its own in some markets and could deploy at least in those areas before the merger. | |
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