baineschile
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | 3g
Cant we enjoy 3g for at least a few weeks before we start talking 4g?
P.S. sprint is going to be gobbled up by directtv/comcast/timewarner/verizon in the next few years anyways |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
 ·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| the Gov't won't let VZ have it. They'll be too big and be the actually the only real CDMA carrier in the US.
DirecTV (you added an extra T) doesnt want them, Comcast may take them, TWC most likely doesnt have the cash.
The only ones that will be able to take Sprint and do anything with it would be MetroPCS, Cricket and Revol.com. Those are the only CDMAs carriers that could take the company and run with it after they voided everyones contract to put them on unlimited monthly plans that would run TM, VZW, AT$T and everyone else into the ground or force them to lower their prices. Because you cant sell an unlimited plan for $99 when someone else is offering the same plan nationwide without contract for $47 per month.
That just won't work. |
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH | Because you cant sell an unlimited plan for $99 when someone else is offering the same plan nationwide without contract for $47 per month.
That just won't work."
What $47 plan are you referring to?? |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| as i said- Revol.com, Cricket, and MetroPCS all offer unlimited plans for $47 per month.
if they teamed up or even one of them took over Sprint and offered that plan in every city that they took from Sprint, nobody else would be able to compete at the $99 price that ATT, TM, VZ and Alltel charge now. |
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH | these are national plans and included unlimited text and 5GB data? |
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jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by beaups  :these are national plans and included unlimited text and 5GB data? No silly, you have to live in Newton, Kansas and use an old RAZR for your phone.  But it is cheap. |
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH | Well he said the "same nationwide plan for $47" so I got kind of excited. Doesn't sound at all the "same" to me. |
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jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
·Verizon FIOS
2 edits | said by beaups :Well he said the "same nationwide plan for $47" so I got kind of excited. Doesn't sound at all the "same" to me. I was just being a smart alec, but I did check their nationwide coverage map. Not sure how they would be able to provide a similar service with the resources they currently have now, and their phone selections were very limited. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | If Sprint buys up those postpaid carriers - it'll be able to keep off the bottom end competition, and allow for a bigger Boost Mobile. I don't see that as a bad thing. |
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avd706
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join:2003-02-06
Union, NJ
| reply to baineschile
said by baineschile :Cant we enjoy 3g for at least a few weeks before we start talking 4g? P.S. sprint is going to be gobbled up by directtv/comcast/timewarner/verizon in the next few years anyways WiMAX is 3g |
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jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
·Verizon FIOS
| said by avd706 :said by baineschile :Cant we enjoy 3g for at least a few weeks before we start talking 4g? P.S. sprint is going to be gobbled up by directtv/comcast/timewarner/verizon in the next few years anyways WiMAX is 3g What? EVDO is 3G, WiMAX is far superior. |
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Smile__
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join:2008-10-10
Baltimore, MD | reply to avd706
XOHM is 4G WiMAX my friend and this is what we are talking about.. |
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hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to jmn1207
Metro and Revol use other carriers phones as long as their CDMA. But if they took over Sprint they would be national and would be able to compete more than what ATT and VZW and TM do. Wouldn't you pay $47 for nationwide UNLIMITED Text, UNLIMITED Voice plus keep your calling package?
That is what i was saying. Nor where did I say keep their current map. i said MERGE or take over Sprint's network.
You didnt read. |
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hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to beaups
But yes. If any of the flat rate unlimited carriers took over sprint their coverage would be nationwide and would be $47 per month. It would not be a hard thing to do if anything ever happened to Sprint.
Those companies should actually take over Nextel's 81 markets and do the same to them. |
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avd706
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join:2003-02-06
Union, NJ
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said by jmn1207 :said by avd706 :said by baineschile :Cant we enjoy 3g for at least a few weeks before we start talking 4g? P.S. sprint is going to be gobbled up by directtv/comcast/timewarner/verizon in the next few years anyways WiMAX is 3g What? EVDO is 3G, WiMAX is far superior. But it is still 3g »www.wirelessweek.com/WiMAX-is-3G.aspx |
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jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
·Verizon FIOS
| Yes, but in the context of this discussion, WiMAX is not in the same league as Edge or EV-DO Rev. X versions more commonly associated with the nomenclature of 3g, and most certainly being referred to in the comment above. It was simply a political move to get WiMAX classified as 3g. The vendors still refer to it as 4g and many of us know it is somewhere in between the two. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | reply to Smile__
A better way to put it is that WiMAX is on the 4G _roadmap_ but 4G spec hasn't been officially defined yet. It will probably require MIMO antenna use to be 4G, which WiMAX is capable of. |
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Smile__
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join:2008-10-10
Baltimore, MD | Let's just call it 4G WiMAX.... Sounds better.. |
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avd706
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join:2003-02-06
Union, NJ
| said by Smile__ :Let's just call it 4G WiMAX.... Sounds better.. Misleading.... this is the First generation of Sprint WiMAX |
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Smile__
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join:2008-10-10
Baltimore, MD | I guess they better change all their brochures and signage then... "Powered by WiMAX, a fourth generation (4G) wireless internet technology." right off the brochure..  |
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