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Sprint CEO Confirms WiMax Coming to Sprint Prepaid
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wish kzoo was
I remember reading that Sprint does not own all of their WiMax coverage; they contract or 'rent' a lot of it. I believe Sprint's contract run thru 2013.
Combined with the slower technology of WiMax this would suggest a resounding NO.
kolosus
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Wimax is dead. Nothing much is going to come out of this. LTE has trumped (and Verizon with it). Until that time when LTE becomes open every one is going to be giving Verizon a chunk of their money... but hey, Verizon paid a lot of money up front for this...
The few phones we're going to see on Boost/Virgin 4g are the last of their kind. Wimax could not do what LTE does on its best day.
The few phones we're going to see on Boost/Virgin 4g are the last of their kind. Wimax could not do what LTE does on its best day.
I wonder what the future holds for Boost.
kolosus
Android Expert
The future? The future is bleak. Sprint's contract with Clear ends sometime next year. They might renew it, they might not. Then again they might just buy Clear along with its customer base and commitments. They'll get a few more customers and they'll be able to continue offering 4g to its Boost subscribers. As time passes be ready for them to phase out 4g as they did iDen. Just at a faster pace.
Boost already has unlimited data removed from their TOS. They haven't started enforcing it yet but expect them to start sometime in the future. Expect Boost to continue offering better and better handsets and continue improving the image of prepaid. Prepaid is going to be the new standard. Contracts are for chumps and big corporations with deep pockets.
Boost is going to do everything in its power to get the folks on shrinkage to get out of that slot. Eventually everything is going to go to 4gLTE and then everything (voice, text and data) are all going to get piped through the data network. To subsidize costs Boost (along with all the other carriers [the larger contract carriers do it already]) will sell all your information to the feds. This includes your conversations, texts and data usage stats. This info will also include information about your GPS coordinates and a host of other information. By the time the carriers are done selling your information you'll have to get a voicebox and eye transplant just to get some sort of anonymity which would be short lived since they'll start tracking you again.
But the world is going to end in December 2012... so... Dont Panic!
Boost already has unlimited data removed from their TOS. They haven't started enforcing it yet but expect them to start sometime in the future. Expect Boost to continue offering better and better handsets and continue improving the image of prepaid. Prepaid is going to be the new standard. Contracts are for chumps and big corporations with deep pockets.
Boost is going to do everything in its power to get the folks on shrinkage to get out of that slot. Eventually everything is going to go to 4gLTE and then everything (voice, text and data) are all going to get piped through the data network. To subsidize costs Boost (along with all the other carriers [the larger contract carriers do it already]) will sell all your information to the feds. This includes your conversations, texts and data usage stats. This info will also include information about your GPS coordinates and a host of other information. By the time the carriers are done selling your information you'll have to get a voicebox and eye transplant just to get some sort of anonymity which would be short lived since they'll start tracking you again.
But the world is going to end in December 2012... so... Dont Panic!
