Well that and the coverage sucks. They went too cheap on building the network, so it didn't actually work where it needed to.
Could be M2M instead of end-user devices. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 12:20:09 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sprint owned 6MHz in 900MHz? Sounds like Nextel/iDEN 2.0. It may be attractive for nationwide businesses like FedEx, UPS and DHL, etc. where you could have fleet management over a private broadband network. UPS gave up on their own private 220MHz network long ago and went to the cellco's. So what would be the point of trying to do this today? Cellular is already available, like everywhere. And equipment from Motorola Solutions? What, TRBO? Why? Two-way/PTT was the cool thing back in the day. Today, you make a phone call or send a text message. Two-way still has its place, but it's limited. Public safety agencies? No. In Illinois we have the Motorola owned and operated Starcom-21 and a majority of the cities and counties don't want to pay Motorola access and equipment fees. Only the agencies that already had a Motorola trunked network went to Starcom-21 because they got very reduced rates from surrendering their 800 licenses and tower leases to Motorola. Yet another reason why Motorola went to shit. You're never gonna get all of the agencies to agree on anything. On 10/24/2014 11:36 PM, Jason McKemie via Af wrote: Not particularly surprising given the billions of dollars some companies are throwing at startups for something they could do themselves for $100 million or so. On Friday, October 24, 2014, Rory Conaway via Af < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> I was thinking the same thing. You would think there are better uses for $200M. Rory From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie via Af Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 9:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sprint owned 6MHz in 900MHz? Better question is what are they smoking that makes them think they're going to do broadband in 2 3MHz channels? Presumably 3 for uplink and 3 for downlink. On Friday, October 24, 2014, Rory Conaway via Af < [email protected] > wrote: http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/sprint-sells-900-mhz-spectrum-firm-led-nextel-co-founders/2014-09-17 Rory Conaway Triad Wireless 4226 S. 37th Street Phoenix, Az. 85040 602-426-0542 [email protected] www.triadwireless.net </blockquote>
