I have called Sprint the king of 4G for many reasons. They make tomorrow look good for us all. I am going to reveal how easy their convergence will be to enter the LTE space, they can change technology mid stream.
Beceem is now shipping their BCS500 chips which are Wimax, and LTE, along with about six or more radios, including CDMA, EV-DO, wifi, blue tooth 3.0, GPS. These chips will hand off seamlessly between Wimax and LTE.
This is their easiest path to the LTE space. This is the only path, that if a decision had to be made today by the Sprint camps, would be the only logical forward path to take. It is much easier to start seeding the device market with devices embedded with this BCS500 chip. Than any other solution they might have. Once they have the device side in check, deploying LTE is a snap. It's a seamless non disruptive way to implement a new technology and not touch the other, until it's time to migrate to an all LTE infrastructure, and because they already have 1/3 of the us covered by wimax, it is the right way to go here. They literally can change out a city from wimax and go with LTE light it up, change over with the flick of a switch, out with the old in with the new. The devices see it, hand off to it. It just don't get any easier than that.
4G is the non proprietary technology . It's not specific to any one carrier. This is an important time for 4g, and all this ads up to more good news for consumers. This means more devices, lower prices today, and practically free tomorrow.
This is also where 4G is suppose to be taking us. This chip is where you the consumer start to get choices.
As these chips will be embedded in all the carrier devices, you will be able to buy a device, and go with what ever carrier you choose. Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, the companies that offer LTE. Of course Sprint needs this more than any other carrier, because they have more wireless technology than all the carriers combined. Sprint will have two 4G technologies, and they need this more than any other carrier to move forward and compete.
And this is why I think we will be hearing from Sprint very soon on their 4G plans. They sometimes don't like to reveal to much, especially when this is going to be an easy direction. But the carriers know what is happening with devices. This should also change the direction of Clear, as they are the largest wholesaler for Sprint, and they need to have their devices embedded with this BCS500 chip as well to stay competitive. So a win win scenario is in the making, and Sprint again comes out the winner. I have often said Sprint is the driving force behind 4G, and they are certainly in the driver seat.
They really just need to let technology catch up to their way of thinking. This could not be any better news for Sprint, or Clear. Not good news for the other carriers. As this will put sprint in the, we have 4GX2 space. And by 6X the spectrum. No matter what the press thinks. Sprint has this 4G thing on the right road. And the winners will be you the consumer. And 4G over all moves in a fast forward mode.
And remember that 4G is not just about speed.. It's about new ways of thinking, all things mobile, and concepts that are still being developed, and to take us in new directions with all our communications, but most of all
to give us choices to how we choose to use this technology, and to take the monopoly out of the game.
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