Sprint Won’t Abandon WiMax
This post was published 2 years 5 months 3 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Stupid Stupid Sprint refuses to acknowledge its mistake to adopt WiMax and continues to forge forward in their flawed plans.
Since announcing its plans for a WiMax network last fall, Sprint has seen its core business in cellular voice deteriorate, losing subscribers to its two major rivals, AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless) and Verizon Wireless, while experiencing a high rate of customer churn. At the same time, Sprint has been successful in lining up subscribers for another wireless broadband service, based on EV-DO technology. The carrier said today its EV-DO service now “reaches” (i.e., covers an area with a population of) 203 million.
Sprint focus on your EVDO rollout, stay with standards, work on your customer service or before you know it you will be the FOURTH largest carrier in the industry. But hey. at least you will now make changes to your cellular plan in the first six months of your contract without requiring two additional years of cellular servitude. Thats a small step.
I use to work for Sprint. They bet the farm in WiMAX, if it doesn’t break through and make them lots of money, than it won’t make them smaller, it will be the last nail in the coffin.