National Wide WiMAX In Doubt

xrayman · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: National Wide WiMAX In Doubt

WiMax, the technology works, but does the business model? The bad news is that most American cities may never see the WiMAX connectivity that Portland and Baltimore have. Read more on the CNN website. http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/05/technology/WiMaxs_last_hope_fortt.fortune/index.htm

ebiz · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:47 am Post subject: Re: National Wide WiMAX In Doubt

wakeman91 · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

So at that rate of $45 million per city and with $3,200 million sitting in the bank that leaves them with...71 additional cities that they can build out. This of course doesn't include the Sprint built networks that are already up but not "running" in Chicago, Dallas, DC etc or the fact that converting their 50+ pre-wimax cities will be much cheaper since the infrustructure is (should be) already in place. Or the fact that at some point their established cities should start generating more revenue than they cost to operate enabling them to spend more money on other cities.

Obviously big sprawling cities such as LA are going to cost a lot more but you get my point.