Thursday, December 9, 2010

Sprint CEO Says 4G First Mover Gambit Produced Modest Advantage

Sprint's motivation in launching the first North American fourth-generation mobile network was to seize a multi-year advantage over its mobile competitors.

As it seems to have turned out, that lead was much shorter than anticipated, providing a lead of just about two years, where a lead of perhaps three years once was deemed possible. And now Sprint Nextel will have to face the Verizon Wireless marketing machine.

Sprint's CEO was interviewed by Walt Mossberg at the All Things Digital conference in San Francisco, as reported by PC World, and admitted that WiMAX technology failed to provide the 4G lead it was supposed to. He did argue, however, that the failure was caused by Verizon's unexpectedly fast response in deploying Long Term Evolution.

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