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Re: EVDO & LTE Costs Just because you announce plans do go to a certain platform doesn't mean that they'll go.
Plans change. Businesses change. TM made comments about LTE. now they're looking at partnering with Clear. Guess what! ITS WIMAX!
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| Whether they use LTE or WiMAX is irrelevant, assuming they have adequate roaming partners. What matters more is how they need to price their service to get the customers they want. It depends on whether they want to be voice-centric or data-centric.
As for T-Mobile wanting to partner to grow their network, I suspect that the direction they go with that is going to depend heavily on what direction Europe takes. The T-Mobile brand is used in several countries, and DT has a strong incentive to build an international presence that's as uniform as possible. They have to be aware of Vodafone's unhappiness with VZW for going CDMA instead of GSM, and I'm sure they'll want to minimize such a risk. So if Europe adopts WiMAX, T-Mobile will likely do the same, but if Europe goes LTE, then they'll likely go in that direction. |
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Canonsburg, PA | said by ISurfTooMuch:As for T-Mobile wanting to partner to grow their network, I suspect that the direction they go with that is going to depend heavily on what direction Europe takes. The T-Mobile brand is used in several countries, and DT has a strong incentive to build an international presence that's as uniform as possible. They have to be aware of Vodafone's unhappiness with VZW for going CDMA instead of GSM, and I'm sure they'll want to minimize such a risk. So if Europe adopts WiMAX, T-Mobile will likely do the same, but if Europe goes LTE, then they'll likely go in that direction. There is very little bandwidth available for WiMAX in Europe. |
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