Sprint Now Says No LTE Gear Until Second Half of 2012
The "highest demand"
What's sad is that the areas that truly need effective wireless broadband are the ones that will never get it. Sprint would have a captive audience if it concentrated on getting service to rural areas. It wouldn't have to be full-speed 4G, either..they could deliver a fifth of that and they'd still get crazy business from those ignored by the telcos and cable companies. Sprint also needs to seriously expand their service footprint. AT&T and/or Verizon are everywhere, but you can barely get Sprint in the middle of the biggest town within 50 miles of me. I suspect this is true for much of the country outside the major metro areas. When it comes to a wireless carrier, coverage and reliability are #1, followed by value and finally by devic...
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What? Sprint has one of of not the largest footprint of all the cellphone companies. I travel a lot between Texas and Colorado and very seldom come across a place where I didnt have a signal. Texas has a lot and so does Colorado both have a lot countr...
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It comes down to volume. Sprint charges less than Verizon and AT&T. The costs of deploying the network are the same. In fact it might actually be more expensive for Sprint, since Verizon and AT&T probably have more leverage in negotiating deals.
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psycros said:
Sprint also needs to seriously expand their service footprint. AT&T and/or Verizon are everywhere...
Probably not gonna happen. Sprint is unlikely to expand its rural footprint greatly because Sprint...
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