[INFO] Sprint and Clearwire Finalize Merger

[wcked]

Today Sprint announced that it has completed the merger of its Xohm Wimax unit with Clearwire Corporation. Sprint contributed all of its 2.5 GHz spectrum and its WiMAX-related assets. Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks all combined to contribute $3.2 billion in cash to help the company get started. Clearwire plans to provide Wimax-based high-speed wireless Internet services.

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[legend2700]

“ Originally Posted by wcked ”

Today Sprint announced that it has completed the merger of its Xohm Wimax unit with Clearwire Corporation. Sprint contributed all of its 2.5 GHz spectrum and its WiMAX-related assets. Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks all combined to contribute $3.2 billion in cash to help the company get started. Clearwire plans to provide Wimax-based high-speed wireless Internet services.

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your thought on this

wow! this sounds really good... based off of the amazing growth of the cell phone industry as a whole... i would have to say WiMAX is the future of wireless broadband :PDT_Armataz_02_44:

[D/\SH]

this is great news for the internet speeds but can sprint really afford to do this?

[wcked]

“ Originally Posted by D/\SH ”

this is great news for the internet speeds but can sprint really afford to do this?

if anything sprint is going to make that money while clearwire is going to run it,this is a small quote.

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Clearwire has received a $3.2 billion cash investment from Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks. The transaction with Sprint and the new cash investment were completed on the terms originally announced on May 7, 2008. The new company retains the name Clearwire and remains headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by wcked ”

if anything sprint is going to make that money while clearwire is going to run it,this is a small quote.

mmmm true i see what you mean now that i read the whole article and actually clicked lmfao.

[TaylorSPJ]

hmmm... interesting....I work for a wireless high speed company and clearwire is our competion....there are some good things and bad things bout them but lets see if sprint can work out some of their kinks.

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by Taylor ”

hmmm... interesting....I work for a wireless high speed company and clearwire is our competion....there are some good things and bad things bout them but lets see if sprint can work out some of their kinks.

can you share the good and bad with us?

[TaylorSPJ]

“ Originally Posted by D/\SH ”

can you share the good and bad with us?

well there a big margin of inconsistency of speed which i think has to do with them throttling you down once you hit a certain bandwdth. they also promote a portable wireless modem that allows you to connect to there tower but there is an allocated amount of subscribers per tower, the issue there is that there is no way to monitor how many people jump on the tower and if it is filled to capacity then the next person who connects to the tower another is disconnected (the domino effect almost).The only other thing is they use 5.8 to send signal point to point which really screws with our equiptment. But theres always good with the bad.. they are using a lower frequency close to cellphones. which can make it to where you can receive signal from any sprint tower in range, based on how many of you get good signal from sprint will determine the signal strength of clear wire in the long run. Now if they merge it may be a good idea to reverse the feed and have it to were there is one there is both because clearwire does reach out to my house out in BFE and sprint signal not so good. But anyways ya thats about it.