Could Apple, Sprint team up on WiMax-powered iPhones and iPods?

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Some time ago I wrote an article for MacDailyNews suggesting that Apple should buy Sony. Apple lovers were generally shocked and against that idea 10 to 1. Well, having licked my wounds from that article, I am sticking my neck out again.... The big news in Kansas City lately has been about Sprint continuing to bleed customers by the million. Sprint has tried to correct a long corporate tradition of putting its bottom line first and customers last in its planning and business policies. 646-223 At Sprint it has been understood that customers are suckers to be baited, trapped and exploited. Apple Computer has always put the end user first and the bottom line really takes good care of its self, thank you very much. Apple is everything Sprint is not. Apple is Innovative, a technology leader, and has world class customer service. The AT&T exclusive on iPhone is going to to expire in a year or so. We know Apple has been looking hard at wireless infrastructure and has expertise in that area. Wireless devices are becoming so common place in our lives, we really couldn't live without them any more. We open our laptops and expect them to hook up to the internet, without us even thinking about it. 646-976 The WiMax or IEEE 802.16 Wireless format is a "last mile" solution. It is sort of a city-wide WiFi network that connects over wide areas with high speed and a lot of bandwidth. Sprint has been working on developing such a network and Apple could buy into that new system by buying Sprint at an attractive price. This would allow Apple TV and the iPhone to have a home network advantage. With control of the device, the iTunes store and the network, Apple could give us the experience we expect from them. Jobs is not one to leave money on the table anyway. E20-322 Enter the financial meltdown of the economy in general and Sprint in particular. Sprint is devalued right now and at the right price, the established wireless system and spectrum rights Sprint holds are quite a valuable asset and a good long term investment. Their reputation has made the word "sprint" an albatross and selling the company to a white knight is the only way for the stock holders to come out of this mess.

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Fine line between famous and infamous.

There ARE such things as:

- Being on vacation

- Being on legimate sick leave

- Working a traditional job, but during non-traditional hours

- Suffering from a legitimate short- or long-term disability

- Having earned, saved, married into, inherited, or in any number of other completely legal ways, accumulated enough wealth so that you are required to work

- Being a part- or full-time student who is interested in contributing to this forum during normal business hours

- Being an intelligent person who is currently staying at home to care for his/her child(ren) --- and whose said child(ren) are currently taking their nap(s)

- Being a person who has worked both hard and honorably for their entire life, and has reached the chronicle age at which he/she has no less than EARNED to right to retire, and therefore not to have to work outside of their home ever again

etc., etc., etc., etc.

Yet you LEAP to the absurd conclusion that anyone who is "bad-mouthing Sprint" in this forum needs to "get a life," --- because while they "talk about how Sprint employees don't do anything at work," they are "the ones that are trolling the message boards on company time."

Suffice it to say that:

- You didn't think your comment through before you posted it.

- There is no POSSIBLE way for to you credibly disagree with a single one the scenarios that I have described above, and

- You have just perfectly demonstrated why Sprintbots are known to be exceedingly stupid in many, many ways.

He should be recognized like this....Sprint is finally starting to be run like a business should and he is also taking on a fixer-uper

By owning only 51% of Wi Max still gives Sprint control of Wi Max. Plus that also includes Spectrum Clearwire owned. Sprint did not loss really anything. This allows for faster deployment of the service and way less investment from Sprint. This is a no lose situation. Sprint will start to rebound in the next few quarters of this year and will start to gain market share in the next few years when people realize ATT and Verizon are way behind the times again. Plus for people that do not realize this. Sprint has the newest network in the wireless industry by far. As for ATT and Verizon there patchworks of many mergers are already showing signs of age and need of repair.So, that means alot of there capital expense is spent on repair rather than new and greater things.

I think that great minds think alike. It's tough keeping up with Apple with their brilliant ideas, yet they inspire other good companies, like Sprint (and many others) to think outside the box and think different, and take risks -- at the risk of fierce criticism. Keep up the good work!

All people will soon agree, Sprint is the place to be. For pictures, data and calls around, GSMs signal keeps hitting the ground. CDMA is robust and Fast, GSM's network is a thing of the Past. SO, stay on your toes, with the Sprint device, with the future in your hands it's really Nice.

"engineer" boy, "engineer" boy, everything's about "engineer" boy.

Must have been designed by a Sprint"engineer"

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I really hope this works. i have had both verizon and att and will never go back. there is service was far worse than antyhing i've had with sprint. hang in there sprint, i'm counting on you.

Ahhh! Now I'm starting to run over!

And skinnier..

I feel like I just keep getting skinnier and skinnier.

Seriously???? To the people who come on here and troll the message boards bad mouthing Sprint, please get a life. You talk about how Sprint employees don't do anything at work, well look at yourselves. You are the ones that are trolling the message boards on company time.

so, on an unrelated topic-- how about getting nested comments to display at full container width instead of stair-stepping down to 80px wide or whatever. It gets painful to read when the comments wrap every half word.

same response on the other thread! so my comment was correct.

again go get a g/f you have too much time on your hands

I really don't know how so many incompetent people find these blogs to voice their opinions. Sprint decision to spin off Wimax is praised by industry analysts as a very smart move. Really their is no negative out of the deal. First of all sprint/clearwire will be the exclusive providered of a true wireless broadband experience 2 years before AT&T and Verizon have anything that even compares. Secondly by partnering up with industry titans such as Timewarner, Comast, Intel, and Google there is no way this can fail, especially with google involved, everthing they touch turns to gold. Finally by making a partnership with said companies Sprint doesn't have to carry the burden of footing the entire billion dollar buildout of the Wimax network that is needed, and is able to begin alot sooner than if Sprint was supporting this project on their own. So really before you open that hole you call a mouth you might want to do a little research first.

Laptop magazine named Sprint President and CEO Dan Hesse as the most influential person in mobile technology in its June 2008 issue. The magazine says "his plans to restore the carrier’s luster may well have repercussions across the whole of the mobile industry."

Laptop notes how each person on their list contributed to the past year, molding "portable devices, policies, wireless technology," among other things, and why each "tech titan" should be watched in 2008. Hesse beat out industry moguls Steve Jobs of Apple and Andy Rubin of Google in the list, which counted down the biggest movers and shakers in mobility.

The magazine highlights Sprint’s investment in WiMAX and Xohm, saying "Sprint is the only carrier positioned to make 4G a reality sooner rather than much later." Hesse says Xohm gives Sprint "a two-year-plus head start" on 4G wireless.

"WiMAX will enable a fundamentally different kind of relationship between the customer and carrier," Laptop says.

It also talks about Sprint’s industry advances with the flat-rate Simply Everything plan and the release of the Samsung Instinct.

I have read so many comments back and forth regarding the intelligence and work ethic of people at Sprint. First of all, YES, I do work at Sprint and I'm proud of my company. It has been a rough few years, but there are lots of hard working folks left here that will take the initiative to fix the problems and stick through it, rather than jump ship and start bad mouthing one of the largest employers in the area. Second, not everyone at Sprint works on the network itself. Anyone that has worked in a corporation before should know that there are multiple other organizations and support departments. I have interacted with some very hard working people who are very intelligent. I have several mentors in this company who I am very blessed to have met. It's too bad that there are so many bitter folks running around bad mouthing this company; for the current employees, keep up the good work and I applaud your efforts.

Sour grapes

Look at Wimax they could'nt handle getting that out on their own either. What a sad incompetent company they are. They should be gone by next year or so.

I dont think anybody works at Sprint. They just walk around with their drool cups trying to figure out what a network is.
Since they cant figure it out they usually sell it to someone that can.
They thought they could handle the Nextel network and look what they did to that.

I don't work at Sprint, I just enjoy listening to all the Sprint whiners. I don't think I've seen so many crybabies since I was in kindergarten.

He he.

You must work in the Sprint Customer Disservice department.

Blah, blah,

whiner.

Yeah, Thats a real good come back there you wannabe.

I believe his mistake was assuming that you actually have a job, engineer boy.

ummm...before telling people they know nothing perhaps you yourself should get an education. Just by trying to read your comment we can tell you are either a 2nd grader or a Sprint"engineer".
Good day-

You know nothing. People who make generalizations such as the one you madein your comments are uninformaed and a big problem in society. But then again, you and the company you work for are probably perfect so you've got room to talk.

Sprint will mess it up. Its uneducated wannabe engineers and execs will mess up this deal like every thing else they touch (ION,Nextel,etc...).
Wimax will happen only because Sprint will not be rolling it out, just selling it.