Larry wrote:
> tim@nowhere.com (Tim) wrote in news:20080405002827.A444B4E4B6
> @outpost.zedz.net:
>
>> Verizon is hoping that a joint venture with Vodafone (VOD)
>> will give it the global scale necessary to negotiate lower prices on
>> infrastructure and phones once it switches to a new wireless technology
>> known as long term evolution, or LTE.
>>
>
> Oh, boy! Let's screw up another generation of data delivery with about 10
> new, and of course completely incompatible, "systems" designed to prevent
> churning so we can screw 'em with charges.
>
> The Sellphone industry hasn't learned its lesson, yet......
>
> But it's about to................................................ .Wimax
>

You really haven't been keeping up on things. This is only the latest in
a series of failures because it works about 5% as well as it was promoted.:


"Australia’s WiMAX pioneer, Buzz Broadband, closed its network, with the
operator’s CEO publicly calling the technology a “disaster” that “failed
miserably.”..."

http://www.electronista.com/articles....wimax.closed/