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Re: NEWS: Sprint & Clearwire scrap wireless plans, WiMAX proves too

DTC

2007-11-14, 10:33 pm

John Navas wrote:
> As I predicted:
>
> <http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/...php?relid=35187>
>
> According to Bond this is a step backwards for WiMAX, after an
> otherwise positive year in which several small operators have
> launched or started rolling out commercial WiMAX services, and Sprint
> Nextel announced plans to deploy WiMAX for its future mobile
> broadband services.

WiMax was pretty much a dead end road pursued by the cellular companies
as a profit avenue to compete against Muni-WiFi.

Quoted from Telephone magazine -

WiMAX follows muni Wi-Fi down slow-go path
By Rich Karpinski

Big news in the WiMAX market this week as Sprint and Clearwire cancelled
a joint venture to build a nationwide WiMAX network. Each plan to go it
alone, they claim, but with Sprint facing corporate headaches and
Clearwire limited in its ability to quickly find new partners, the goal
of nationwide WiMAX undoubtedly took a hit.

Coupled with ongoing problems faced by municipal Wi-Fi projects, the
vision of alternative wireless broadband services emerging has run into
a healthy dose of reality. And while press reports this week had Google
(not to mention Comcast) stepping in to the WiMAX breach, that
apparently was as big a fantasy as the so-called gPhone.

The challenges for the Sprint-Clearwire project turned out to be more
business- than technology-related -- much as has been the case with muni
Wi-Fi. When Sprint CEO Gary Forsee resigned recently, under growing
criticism of Sprint's poor financial performance, the fate of the
high-profile but risky partnership was most likely sealed.

For now, Clearwire is pursuing its network launch alone. Company
officials will launch its first WiMAX networks in mid-2008 and aim to
pick up markets where it would have counted on Sprint by the following
year. But WiMAX's lead in the race to deliver next-generation wireless
has clearly suffered a setback.

Dan

2007-11-14, 10:33 pm

On 11/14/07 6:58 PM, DTC wrote:
> John Navas wrote:
>
> WiMax was pretty much a dead end road pursued by the cellular companies
> as a profit avenue to compete against Muni-WiFi.
>
> Quoted from Telephone magazine -
>
> WiMAX follows muni Wi-Fi down slow-go path
> By Rich Karpinski
>
> Big news in the WiMAX market this week as Sprint and Clearwire cancelled
> a joint venture to build a nationwide WiMAX network. Each plan to go it
> alone, they claim, but with Sprint facing corporate headaches and
> Clearwire limited in its ability to quickly find new partners, the goal
> of nationwide WiMAX undoubtedly took a hit.
>
> Coupled with ongoing problems faced by municipal Wi-Fi projects, the
> vision of alternative wireless broadband services emerging has run into
> a healthy dose of reality. And while press reports this week had Google
> (not to mention Comcast) stepping in to the WiMAX breach, that
> apparently was as big a fantasy as the so-called gPhone.
>
> The challenges for the Sprint-Clearwire project turned out to be more
> business- than technology-related -- much as has been the case with muni
> Wi-Fi. When Sprint CEO Gary Forsee resigned recently, under growing
> criticism of Sprint's poor financial performance, the fate of the
> high-profile but risky partnership was most likely sealed.
>
> For now, Clearwire is pursuing its network launch alone. Company
> officials will launch its first WiMAX networks in mid-2008 and aim to
> pick up markets where it would have counted on Sprint by the following
> year. But WiMAX's lead in the race to deliver next-generation wireless
> has clearly suffered a setback.

Craig McCaw is no idiot. His company Clearwire owns bandwidth licenses
for WiMax to reach 200 million persons in the USA. WiMax will
eventually win the mobile broadband race. I may make an investment in
Clearwire stock, it is only at $15.

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