Comcast and Time Warner To Launch WiMax Network, Asking Sprint to Run It? [WiMax]

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• March 26, 2008
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  Comcast and Time Warner To Launch WiMax Network, Asking Sprint to Run It? [WiMax]

  Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:44pm by Wilson Rothman

  Cable operators Comcast and Time Warner plan to gather up $1.5 billion to $2 billion in order to get their own WiMax network going, but it's said that they would turn to Sprint to run the show. Now, I don't know what part of this plan makes sense to anyone else, but A) WiMax as a wide-area network technology ">isn't looking as hot in practice as it did in theory, and B) Sprint doesn't seem to be capable of running its own operation, let alone someone else's multi-billion-dollar baby. One thing is for sure, this move by the cable titans shows, like Dish Network's recent acquisition of some 700MHz spectrum, that everybody wants a piece of the wireless pie, even if they don't know exactly what to do with it. [AP]