Even at the time, their marketing strategy wasn't up to the task, and people were already saying it was just a spectrum parking ploy by Sprint, to keep control of the EBS spectrum but financially off their books until they wanted it on their books.
Sprint does however have a long history of unsuccessful technology rollouts, like Sprint Broadband Direct, and Sprint ION. https://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/whatever-happened-to-sprintand-8217 s-ion/d/d-id/577463 -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Real threat I don't know that it was that simple. IIRC (someone here might remember the timing better than I), when they started, LTE was still a proposal, and WiMax actually had working gear. They eventually realized, the rest of the industry had zagged after they had zigged, and they rebooted with LTE. By that time, they had spent most of their money, and they never caught up. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/19/2019 6:09 AM, Gino A. Villarini wrote: > By not choosing LTE, they lost the change of interop, volume > manufacturing etc.. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
