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Old 04-12-2007, 06:05 PM
John Navas
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Default Re: Sprint's Big Pipe Dream

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:57:39 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in
<Xns991084230D067noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>:

>John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in
>news:b59r13dgglat4b8nnvhluehvuopvpe3p05@4ax.com :
>
>> Sprint OTOH faces major technical risks -- even assuming WiMAX lives up
>> to the hype, it's by no means clear that Sprint can successfully
>> integrate cellular with WiMAX -- efforts to integrate cellular with
>> Wi-Fi have been notably unsuccessful thus far.

>
>Why integrate? Dump cellular and put a VoIP phone on WiMax.


Given issues of latency, traffic priority, and network congestion, that
might not work well. To be viable as a general proposition, I think it
would have to be as good as CDMA2000 cellular.

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