Future of National WiMAX Network in Question


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Ina Sebastian | December 05, 2007, 05:28 PM

After the termination of the letter of intent for a national WiMAX rollout and service in partnership with Clearwire, Sprint is seriously reevaluating its WiMAX plans. The company may now spin off the WiMAX unit, according to a recent article.

Certainly, rollout would be expensive. Sprint initially estimated $5 billion by 2010. The business case for a national network is however in question. We recently published the following piece on the topic, which gives some detail on our current research.



 
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