From Sprint-Nextel conference on 4G
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Studied long and hard on which technology to do.
Selected mobile Wimax for 4g network.
First nationwide 4g mobile broadband network.
Use 2.5GHz holdings in portfolio
Fourth quarter of 2007 start to deploy in select markets. 100 million people targeted by 2008.
Use of a lot of devices such as laptops, camcorders and other electronic devices.
Capex ex= $1B in 2007 and $1.5-2B in 2008.
Single and multimode devices.
More than a dozen trials outside the USA.
Low cost high-speed network.
Down link 2.4mb/s. high performance uplink.
All IP technology; WIMAX.
Looked at Flarion’s OFDM. Only on 1.25mhz though. It is FDD Sprint has more of TDD...
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