Sprint has WiMAX fever, plans national rollout
It wasn't too hard to tell who Motorola was giving the wink and nudge to with their "Harmony" project to mix iDEN with WiMAX, but now the word is out that Sprint is indeed going to go with WiMAX for 4G service. Sprint has been planning a new network for a while, but they've been on the fence in regards to tech. WiMAX seems a pretty sensible choice these days, with handset heft from Moto and Samsung, Intel's backing, and even a bit of friendly competition and roaming partnership potential from Clearwire. Sprint, who hasn't exactly confirmed this report, is said to be thinking of having the network built out by 2008, at a cost somewhere between $1 billion and $4 billion. We'll be standing by for Sprint to give all these information leaks their stamp of approval, but really Sprint, it wasn't too hard to guess.[Via dailywireless]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gabriel Lowe @ Aug 8th 2006 11:08AM
How does this relate to the announcement last week about EVDO rev A? Are they rolling out both at the same time? Why spend money on EVDO rev A if WiMax is their next goal?
Christopher Price @ Aug 8th 2006 2:34PM
EV-DO Rev A will enable Sprint's QChat network which allows for PTT technology that is better than Nextel iDEN handsets. Such advances are critical to deprecating the iDEN network to consumers and businesses.
But, "wasn't too hard to guess?" A great cry of bewilderment was just heard from the editorial desk at PCS Intel... if we were guessing, we would have been wrong a long, long time ago.
-_- @ Aug 8th 2006 4:03PM
so, does this effectively make ev-do r.A pointless or something? It's like how cingular's going to release hsdpa as soon as umts; umts will only be an intermediate solution, whereas the hsdpa will be the service most promoted.
sam cook'd @ Aug 8th 2006 8:00PM
the EVDO network will become their 'base'network like how their 2.5G(basic vision) network is now....Power Vision(EVDO) will be your service in areas that doesnt have WiMAX....so your 'slow speeds' will be 1Mb+ ....correct me if im wrong