Re:Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
by robterrell on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:17AM
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Cringely proposed that Wal-Mart install wimax routers in every store and thereby essentially blanket the country in coverage. I don't know enough about wimax or wimax phones like the HTC Evo to know if you could provision any wimax router to make voice calls, but I do like the thought that someone in an entirely different business could disrupt the ridiculous monopolistic profit machine that is today's cellular market.
Re:Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
by iamdave on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:05PM
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Do you have a link to this? I'd like to read more.
Re:Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
by robterrell on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:46PM
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But it's a difficult thing to carry off. Several companies, I believe, have tried and all have failed. (I can't remember the names of any of those companies right now; I don't know if that's 'cause I'm tired, or if that's 'cause I'm actually remembering a conversation about a business that someone wanted to start that never happened, or if I'm just making this up wholecloth. None the less, it seems like a direction from which you could attack the market using unlicensed spectrum. You would have many obstacles, but it seems possible, at least in high-density urban areas.)