| 1. Posted by IOWA |
Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:34 am |
Intel Has Recently Offered To Chip In 2 Billion Towards This Technology. Holy Cow!
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| 2. Posted by McGirk |
Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:08 pm |
However the other CDMA carriers are either being cautious about it, or siding with the GSM 4G technology LTE.
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| 3. Posted by IOWA |
Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:53 am |
However the other CDMA carriers are either being cautious about it, or siding with the GSM 4G technology LTE. lte is certainly impressive. nokia recently did some real world testing and they got speeds over 100MBPS. However, this is far from being implemented. in order to achieve these speeds in a real market thier backbones need massive upgrades, costing well over 10 billion dollars to roll out in the us. which will give wimax an advantage because it is ready to roll out now, and for half the cost. and now the us government may even back wimax financially. lte technology is at least 4 years away at best, and thats not including backbone upgrades. without the backbone upgrades lte will only reach a meager 3mbps, if that, depending on data usage and call volume's. wimax has already soft launched in chicago and is showing promising results.
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| 4. Posted by McGirk |
Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:41 am |
Oh I'm not arguing, but many companies out there aren't siding with WiMax because Sprint is it's champion, and I'm not certain I'd want my name attached to theirs right now either. There is a lot of negative feelings about Sprint right now. Sprint would have been a lot better off buying Alltel instead of Nextel.
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| 5. Posted by IOWA |
Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:36 am |
Oh I'm not arguing, but many companies out there aren't siding with WiMax because Sprint is it's champion, and I'm not certain I'd want my name attached to theirs right now either. There is a lot of negative feelings about Sprint right now. Sprint would have been a lot better off buying Alltel instead of Nextel. I Agree! if i didn't have sprint i'd go to alltel, then verizon. i think by the end of this year sprint is really gonna clean up thier image though.
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| 6. Posted by McGirk |
Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:23 pm |
They are gonna have to do something. There unified billing should be complete by June, maybe then their customer service will begin to show marked improvements. If Sprint hadn't purchased Nextel, they'd have been in line to purchase Alltel when they went up for sale last year at this time. I can't complain with what the private investors have done so far though. Still kind of suprised that Verizon didn't take the plunge. They could have sold overlapping towers to Sprint to help cover the cost of the purchase.
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| 7. Posted by IOWA |
Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:03 am |
Sprint CS Has Shown Marked Improvement Already.
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| 8. Posted by McGirk |
Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:28 am |
It's going to have to be special to erase two years of awful. Customers are not likely to forget easy. After my dealings with Centennial, I'll never go back to them, and many, many people feel the same way about Sprint right now.
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| 9. Posted by IOWA |
Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:41 am |
No Doubt There's Nothing Like Word Of Mouth. And While I Was Viewing A Few Other Wireless Forums It Seems Sprint's New Attitude Is Catching On Fast. What They Need To Do Is Grab That JD Powers Award By Any Means Possible.
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| 10. Posted by McGirk |
Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:30 am |
That could change things for them a little.
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| 11. Posted by IOWA |
Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:47 am |
Oh And One Other Thing Nice Sprint Is Doing Is They Are Visiting Forums Like This, But With More Traffic, And Taking Ideas From Customers And Helping Then Solve Thier Problems.
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| 12. Posted by McGirk |
Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:24 am |
Sprint started their own forum, I think it was called buzzwireless.com or something like that, but essentially people would complain about something, and then a Sprint employee would get on and assure them that Sprint was doing everything they could to fix the problem, or assure them that it was their fault. Not exactly encouraging real change there.
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| 13. Posted by IOWA |
Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:17 pm |
It's buzzaboutwireless.com. and they are helping people.
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| 14. Posted by McGirk |
Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:37 am |
I had dial-up when I checked it before, so I didn't spend a lot of time on the different threads, but from what I did read, I wasn't impressed. A bunch of customers bitching, and a bunch of csr's saying soothing nothing's.
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| 15. Posted by aaronr11 |
Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:42 pm |
I hear that WiMax's brother, WiBro, is capable of reaching constant 50 mb/s speeds. Anyone know of a person that REALLY needs to check the football game in 1.548 seconds?
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| 16. Posted by McGirk |
Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:26 am |
Perhaps not, but the technology they are working on now, is not for the things we have now, but for other features that may require a faster connection.
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| 17. Posted by IOWA |
Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:12 am |
WiMax, with a proper backbone, can actually reach speeds of twice that, if not more. but it's all about the backbone.
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| 18. Posted by McGirk |
Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:49 am |
Yes, I was just commenting on the fact that they didn't think we needed internet that fast on our phones, but future phones will have features that require the extra speed.
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| 19. Posted by Shalalala |
Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:59 pm |
What a poor waste of money for Sprint.
Their new slogan should be "We're losing money and customers, so we'll do anything to stay relevant!"
See, if Iowa can do it in all of the non-Sprint forums, I'll do it here.
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| 20. Posted by McGirk |
Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:27 am |
If iowa is bashing other carriers, he should be reported to the moderators for a breach of forum rules. Let's try and keep this the civil forum board that it has remained, please.
On another note: Motorola has taken it's work with the WiMax technology, and has pledged to support and work with the LTE folks, specifically it's work with antennaes. With their help, Verizon plans on market testing as soon as this year. Funny thing is, Sprint is the one that felt it should have several companies compete for the WiMax bid, and apparently a spurned Motorola is taking their work elsewhere. This should definitely be seen as a blow to Sprint and it's WiMax technology. Sprint has to be banking on this as a way to bring customers back to them, and if it doesn't have a significant headstart over the competition, then other companies will not change their mind and choose WiMax over LTE as their 4G data solution. If Sprint becomes the sole supporter of the WiMax technology and has to face competition from the competing LTE technology they'll find themselves fighting a losing battle. Whether WiMax is better then LTE or not, if more companies support LTE and it is released within a years time of WiMax, those supporting LTE will have the advantage of each others network for roaming purposes. For Sprint's sake, WiMax will have to be released to the public a full year or more in advance of LTE for it to remain a player. Otherwise they will have lost too much money to recover.
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| 21. Posted by IOWA |
Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:54 am |
Lol I Don't Bash Anyone. I Merely State Sprint's Data Network Is The Best Of All the large carriers. manator is just a child.
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| 22. Posted by McGirk |
Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:14 am |
. . . iowa. . .
On a separate note, one in line with the discussion of this thread, Motorola has completed test calls between EVDO RevA and LTE technology devices, proving that CDMA carriers can use the LTE technology without fear of incompatibility. The device has to have both EVDO and LTE chipsets, but this is hardly a deal breaker, as many phones already have multiple chips already. This is another blow being dealt to Sprint and it's bid to ride WiMax back into contention. Sprint and Clearwire have been working to secure another 3billion in funds from cable companies to help fund creating a nationwide WiMax network. This would initially seem to make it look better for Sprint, but Sprint and Clearwire were working together last year as well, and agreements fell apart between them, and there is nothing in writing keeping them together this time. Cable companies may see the immediate progress Motorola is making on the LTE side and decide to hold back, as a real 4g competition appears more and more likely.
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| 23. Posted by IOWA |
Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:01 am |
Doesn't change the fact the wimax is ready now and lte is years away from deployment. sprint just needs the money for equipment.
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| 24. Posted by McGirk |
Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:11 am |
Thing is, WiMax isn't now, it's just in a few major markets, and the boost that LTE is getting from Motorola may speed it up by years. Make no mistake, for people to jump on the WiMax bandwagon, it will have to be out years in advance, and I mean mainstream usuable, years in advance.
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| 25. Posted by IOWA |
Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:24 pm |
Well If Sprint Doesn't get the backing they need i think they will pull out too. that's probably why they are waiting for the additional funding before rolling it out. either way sprint will still be on top for data i believe, because of thier backbone. that's why they are slightly faster than verizon at the moment, but this is just speculation.
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| 26. Posted by McGirk |
Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:01 am |
Sprint has spent a lot of money on this, they really need it to take off, if they end up backing off of this, then they'll only have the QChat phones to try and pull their bacon out of the fire with.
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| 27. Posted by IOWA |
Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:35 am |
The thing is, wimax was the old ceo's dream. i don't know what the new one wants to do.
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| 28. Posted by McGirk |
Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:12 am |
The new one so far seems to support it, but I think many of the boardmembers at one point in time were planning on scrapping it.
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