An interesting bit of corporate news that I heard on a recent Buzz Out Loud podcast (on my N800, of course.) Seems as though the CEO is getting the boot and the Wimax project is his baby.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9791451-7.html
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I read here that populated Canada is already largely covered by Wimax.
Does anyone know if those carriers are making "enough" money to satisfy the shareholders....including any "activist investors" ???

Looks like you were right. This Sprint / Clearwire breakup might mean that we have to wait a while longer for wimax.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/09/s...f-wimax-plans/

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ighlight=wimax

I mentioned that a while back in the thread linked above. It's disappointing because wimax sounds so attractive...

Engadget says that Intel and Nokia are likely to pump some dollars into clearwire to ensure that their wimax deployment stays on track. That might mean that the wimax tablet stays on schedule as well (I hope so).

I've been debating, recently, about getting a sprint cell phone for tethering, or a t-mobile phone for tethering. I think this may have decided for me. If sprint is going to ditch wimax, then why bother with them?

What kind of tethering speed does T-Mobile offer? Sprint has EVDO which is darn close to DSL.

T-Mobile is EDGE in the US, because they counted on using a spectrum for 3G that the US govt keeps delaying for release (they won the auction for that spectrum a while ago). So, they're the slowest carrier, but they're also cheapest for a voice+unlimitedData plan. And they're very open about data plans, where other carriers aren't (AT&T will revoke an unlimited data plan if you use your unlimited rate too much; supposedly verizon will do the same).

Though, I finally figured out how to get tethered through metropcs (unlimited minutes+data for $50/mo), but it's at 1x speed, not EVDO.

Verizon will do the same... they also revoke it if you use it for just about anything.

Sprint won't, though. They're really good about it; it's unlimited, you can do anything but run a webserver on it, and so on, but they're a lot more expensive than T-mobile for data.

(Not as expensive as AT&T and Verizon, though. AT&T uses sim cards, but I am at a loss as for why Verizon has anyone on their data plans.)