Sprint Rolls out WiMAX Access

Tokin84 writes "Today, Sprint announced that it would pour over $4.5Bn into a 2.5Ghz WiMAX system to be rolled out across the country. From the article: 'Sprint Nextel, the nation's largest holder of radio spectrum in the precious 2.5 GHz band, has reportedly chosen to deploy Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) as the foundation of its technology platform for the carrier's mobile broadband Next-Generation Network (NGN) build-out.'"

Re:Here's an idea...

[filmotheklown]

Cheaper to cover an area with radio signal than to trench cable any day of the week.

Re:So many standards

[MrZaius]

WiMAX, even the proposed mobile standard, has nothing to do with cell phones. This is a WISP [wikipedia.org] thing. WiMAX will also be used extensively in Australia and Europe, although more likely over 3.5ghz than 2.5ghz.

Stupid headline

[devjj]

Sprint didn't "roll out" anything. They announced their intent to spend money to do so.

Re:The Environment

[molarmass192]

It's not thermal energy displacement per se that's the cause of the problem, it's the CO2 used to create the energy needed to displace that thermal energy. Make one place hotter to make another cooler and you still have the same amount of thermal energy. Mix in the CO2 discharge, and then there's the start of a problem. Add a fresh daily batch of solar heat, have CO2 prevent thermal radiation into space thanks to the green house effect, and you get rising avergage temps. There's also the problem of higher temps creating more H2O vapor which leads to higher temps but, CO2 is a bit more difficult to get rid of than H2O vapor at the temps range we have on this planet.

Re:Here's an idea...

[Chosen Reject]

Because its very expensive to do that.

Yeah, it's not like the government didn't give them money to do it already. [newnetworks.com]

Here's a reason

[BenEnglishAtHome]

The current wireless providers cancel accounts when people actually use them; the boards [broadbandreports.com] are littered with EVDO users complaining that, for example, Verizon axed them when their throughput hit 10 gigs a month. Heck, even Consumer Affairs [consumeraffairs.com] got shafted.

Will there be similar limitations on WiMax? Without a reasonable TOS, I'd turn it down.