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Re: WiMAX=Motorola Canopy said by patcat88:Yep, I've been right. WiMAX is going to be nothing more than an "open" competitor to Motorola Canopy. Fixed wireless only, its dead as mobile wireless, it will be a niche, like iDEN is today. You shouldn't break your arm patting yourself on the back just yet. Wimax is here now and it works. It's much ballyhooed competitor is still MIA in terms of commercial deployments.
I think the reason Sprint went with WiMAX instead of LTE was that Qualcomm was making special deals with Verizon for cheap CDMA2000/IS-95 equipment, and was giving Sprint the short end of the stick.
No, the reason that Sprint chose Wimax was to fulfill one of the FCC's requirements regarding their merger with Nextel. That condition was that they would not divest any of their 2.5 Ghz holdings but they would deploy a broadband network on that spectrum which would cover 15 million POPS by the end of 2009 and 30 million POPS by the end of 2011. Wimax was ready to be utilized to help Sprint achieve that goal. LTE was not and still is not.
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