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On Wednesday, Sprint announced the next cities in its national 4G roll out: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle. All ten cities are scheduled to be upgraded to WiMAX in 2009.
Sam Churchill at the dailywireless.org blog included a number of interesting images in a great post summarizing the announcement, along with some other relevant info.
It appears the 2009 is going to be a busy year for wireless broadband after all – I know that we’re busy here at Towerstream! We recently announced new Points of Presence (PoPs) in our Miami and Los Angeles networks, and we are working on some things for our other markets as well. The pace of technology advancement is continuing despite the economy.
What do you think about Sprint’s 4G roll-out? Do you think it will be successful?
Sam Churchill at the dailywireless.org blog included a number of interesting images in a great post summarizing the announcement, along with some other relevant info.
It appears the 2009 is going to be a busy year for wireless broadband after all – I know that we’re busy here at Towerstream! We recently announced new Points of Presence (PoPs) in our Miami and Los Angeles networks, and we are working on some things for our other markets as well. The pace of technology advancement is continuing despite the economy.
What do you think about Sprint’s 4G roll-out? Do you think it will be successful?
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Comment by Jeff Thompson on April 3, 2009 at 11:06am -
Alan,
I would love to agree with you that fixed/nomadic wireless broadband will grow more quickly. However, from what I am seeing, the mobile 4G products from Clearwire and Sprint will scale and be at much larger volumes than fixed wireless.
Phil also makes some great points here. It will be really interesting to see if the other companies invested in Clearwire will follow Comcast and Sprint’s lead to leverage their investment in the company.
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Comment by Alan J Weissberger on April 1, 2009 at 10:17am
- I certainly hope that Clearwire's WiMAX rollout will be successful. I hope they are able to attract more companies to be MVNOs. e.g. Comcast, Time Warner, even Dell.
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Comment by Philip Solis on March 30, 2009 at 11:20am - I think Clearwire's WiMAX rollout will find success. They have about as much spectrum as the established mobile operators do, except that it will be completely dedicated to WiMAX, while the big mobile operators currently only have a very limited amount of spectrum to use for LTE. These mobile operators will need to acquire more spectrum and shift devices off of their existing spectrum over time in order to have an equivalent amount of spectrum to work with. This will take time. Until then, Clearwire has a window of opportunity to grow by offering better value - higher speed services at lower prices (that can be supported by a network with more spectrum / capacity). Aside from their physical assets, Clearwire is more open to different business models and is more attractive to consumer electronics vendors (although coverage will be an issue early on). Having services sold by Sprint and the participating cable operators as MVNOs will make Clearwire's WiMAX service more attractive to a wider variety of customers than Clearwire alone since they will be able to provide different bundles of services.
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I don't think much about Sprint's 4G roll out. They are only a MVNO -leasing and reselling bandwith from the new Clearwire- a company which they own 51%. Their only contribution is to encourage new multi-mode gadgets to connect to their own CDMA 3G network and also to mobile WiMAX.
A more interesting question is which will grow faster: mobile broadband or fixed/nomadic broadband wireless. Pyramid Research predicts the former, while I predict the latter. Please refer to this post:
Pyramid Research: Mobile broadband to grow 3 times faster than fixed wireless broadband- do you agree?
http://www.wimax360.com/forum/topics/pyramid-research-mobile
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