To: Eric L who wrote (33148 ) 3/5/2003 5:47:04 PM From: kech Read Replies (3) | Respond to The nice thing about Nextwave's plan is that it dodges the spectrum allocation problem posed by Sprint. (Assuming that this is the real issue and not just that they don't have enough borrowing capacity to do anything and need a convenient excuse not to right now). If they were really concerned about setting aside spectrum, they don't have to. Sprint can just use Nextwave until, and if, they find out that there is enough demand out there to use a channel. They don't even have to switch to their own channel everywhere, they can just do it in markets where they feel they have channels to spare and continue to use Nextwave for EVDO in the others. If they were really just concerned about the borrowing capacity, then again, they don't have to borrow a ton, just "pay as you go for EVDO". Hey that kind of has a ring to it doesn't it. heh heh. Sprint PCS CTO, Oliver Valente who built out Sprint PCSs all digital network from scratch commencing in late 1995 and who has stated publicly from day one that it was highly unlikely that Sprint PCS would ever implement 1xEV-DO because it would require dedicating wireless voice capacity to data and instead would wait for 1xEV-DV to be available. [dedicating hard-to-get and expensive spectrum--the lifeblood of any wireless carrier--solely to a data service is not] something sustainable long term. There is a tangible data value today, [but] for consumers, that value isn't the high falutin things you read and hear about, it's actually (text messaging) and downloadable applications." - Dennis Strigl, Dec 11, 2002
