Thread: Nokia N810 Wimax End of life status!
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2009-01-10 , 00:06
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
The people who say "believe it when I see it" apparently don't want to see the people in the wild who were getting 3Gbps on a small handheld device with no large obnoxious external antenna. Overall, WiMax is a proven technical success.

But Xohm/Sprint was indeed a business failure. That's not a disparagement of them; I have known several brilliant people whose businesses failed for one reason or another.
Who are these elusive 'people in the wild?' I'm pretty sure they're nowhere near me, very likely nobody that I really know very well either. I know many people with other devices and services despite living in Springfield, MA. Springfield. blah

A technical success isn't much of a success at all if it never gets rolled out enough to be used by enough customers to maintain a business and support that technical success (beta vs VHS, for example).