I just ran across an article saying that boost, and virgin mobile, the sub carriers of sprint will go ahead and tag onto sprints wimax network. They're set to release 4G handsets sometime soon is the rumor...which just leads me to the thought that lte will not launch when we really would love for it to. Sprints releasing lte handsets, which won't read 4G on your screen for well over a year. Its the original evo all over again...except the evo went from June to November without 4g....maybe sprint will have those test days such as the evo.
Well here's what I think, sprint has to push all the profits out of wimax that they can, pushing virgin, and boost to wimax (which should've been happened) proves they understand that wimax is officially a bust. Well the jump to lte proves that, but we all know that manufacturers do not want to keep producing wimax phones, which proves the lack of 4g devices for sprint. A manufacturer @IAmMissHawaii would have to continuously produce wimax variants of phones, which means they have to lease chipsets they'd rather not have produced when they know its unneeded. For sprints lte to do damage to the competition, its launch, and completion needs to be swift. The clear connection is definitely a great move, as clear is a cell based 4g network. And merging gives them coverage immediately on top of the towers they will have set up.
In the short term this will probably be a good move, but when those customers need to then convert to lte, how will sprint, boost, virgin convert these customers. Honestly I know some individuals who live on the smaller paygo networks it works for them. And now that boost and virgin mobile are on 4g they can have that high speed on a budget...so does this mean lte is imminent for them also? Ushering in any customer will be difficult. I guess we just have to wait and see what all will happen.
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