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Originally Posted by iball View Post
I don't get this "no free wi-fi" in these supposed big influential cities.
I'd definitely be more willing to open up my wifi if I live in the countryside where I know most of my neighbors (and their net-savvy kids), than if I had lived in a busy downtown intersection close to hotels, cafes and public (bus\subway) stations.

Originally Posted by iball View Post
Now, if Sprint is REALLY serious about Wi-Max and uses existing towers to massively deploy it throughout the U.S. over the next year or two then I can see a Wi-Max-enabled N800 stomping the crap out of any current Apple product.
Especially if that N800 comes with Skype ALREADY INSTALLED ON IT. Sprint does a deal with both Nokia and Skype and they stand to make a small mint. Not a large mint mind you, but enough tomake it worthwhile.
More importantly they'll be collecting very valuable data on the whole thing (customers, experience, sales, issues, etc) that will put them ahead of everyone else in the whole wireless data game. There's only so much you can learn from EVDO after all.

Of course if Apple tosses out an iPod Touch that's Wi-Max enabled then the wheel spins again...
Let me get this straight... Sprint has to make major investment to deploy WiMax on their existing infrastuctures so that Nokia can launch the "in development, but not really finished yet" NITs, AND let Skype, one of their arch enemy VOIP provider free roam on their network, so that the NIT fanboys can cheer... for a small mint??

Will you drive your car off a broken bridge, video tape and post it on Youtube for a whole load of online forum cheering and a paypal pot of $68.73??

'Open connection' access on a mobile network goes against their whole business model. They still don't have to go down that route and can still collect the pretty penny for yet another few years on what they have going on. Maybe if someone like google (gphone, 700mhz bandwidth bid) enters the picture, will this whole thing shifts.