pkorx8
join:2003-06-19
San Francisco, CA Reviews:
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| How does Sprint decide which market? So how does Sprint decide which market to deploy?
Did a bunch of their exec's sit in a room and throw a dart on the map?!?
Merced/Visalia, CA is as "middle of nowhere" America as it gets, so how do they justify their return on investing in 4G deployments in those area's?
San Francisco/Silicon Valley is ~2hours away, so when will we get 4G? |
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| smaller markets mean they can build the network out there faster. Otherwise why doesn't NYC have it already? Plus from the looks at it, a lot of companies use Merced/Visalia as a test market.
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kaila
join:2000-10-11
Lincolnshire, IL | reply to pkorx8
Sprint doesn't decide which market to deploy into, Clearwire does.
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Many of the smaller markets are being launched as they had the older version of WiMax. They are trying to get all the former Clearwire markets upgraded to mobile WiMax. |
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| not at all. Dayton Ohio isn't even on that list of being upgraded. Instead it's the 3 C's. |
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| reply to hottboiinnc
If a market has traditionally been a Sprint Strength (or a competing carrier has a major weakness), I can see Sprint coming in with guns blazing; this is especially true if one of their partners (TWC or Comcast) is the dominant cable company in that same area.
The Washington, DC area is home to Uncle Sam (traditionally a Sprint Strength) and Comcast's Beltway Region, so why have both Sprint (and, more tellingly, Clear) lagged on deployment? VZW is also very strong here (arguably, this is the strongest market VZW has); further, there is a limit on tower height (or even building height) over and above restrictions around the region's three major and many general-aviation airports (specifically, the Height Act). Even so, Clear (though now available) drops to 3G outside the Capital Beltway by more than a mile (however, *inside* said Beltway, Clear is as powered up with 4G as it is anywhere else). If you're a Comcast (or even Sprint) customer already with a traditional (outside-in) commute (or a commute entirely within the Beltway's circumference), then Clear can make loads of sense; however, inverted (inside the Beltway to outside) or long commutes that start and finish outside the Beltway would rule Clear out. |
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