Comcast May Have Wireless Broadband PlansSprint/Clearwire breakup opens up options...
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old news - 09:57AM Tuesday Nov 13 2007)
tags: business · wireless · alternatives · bandwidth · Sprint Mobile Broadband · ComcastYeah, while we here in the States wait to see if Sprint has the financial muscle to get their mobile WiMax network built, Samsung is releasing their second generation of mobile WiMax gear in South Korea (
Aving via
Gizmodo)
There are four devices in all, including the SPH-P9200 UMPC with foldable QWERTY keyboard, the SPH-M8200 slider touchscreen PDA that's 16.6mm thick that not only has mobile WiMax but CDMA EV-DO, and a couple of USB modems, the SPH-H1300 and SWT-H200K that are WiMax-friendly.
Meanwhile, back here in the States, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett (who seems in a constant state of trying to re-assure investors that Comcast stock doesn't suck) is floating the idea that the cable giant could team up with Sprint to
offer mobile WiMax -- if they don't make a play on their own:
He suggests that Comcast, one of the Sprint-cable joint venture members, might contribute the spectrum it obtained in the AWS auction, and use it as its answer to the wireless question. It might also "remove the overhang of cable potentially bidding in the upcoming 700 MHz auction, with the intended purpose of building out a wireless network itself.
We've
mentioned that investors have been scared of Comcast's stock because of Verizon FiOS, and because they believe Comcast is preparing to make an expensive wireless broadband move. Sprint last week
announced that it had scrapped its mobile WiMax partnership with Clearwire after the two companies couldn't hash out the details.
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