Archive for October 2nd, 2008

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What will make WiMAX service a must-have for you?

Marguerite Reardon has written a long article on CNET asking whether Sprint’s WiMAX service is doomed to fail. She enumerates several problems with Sprint’s offering and argues that it could end up being like EarthLink’s failed muni Wi-Fi strategy:

Sprint’s prices are not low enough, speeds not fast enough to entice people away from their DSL subscriptions; very few devices that have a WiMAX chip so why would people rush out and buy the service; not available in a lot of…
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