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You forgot the most important reason. No data-only wireless vendor has ever made money (except perhaps for the paging services in their best years). Sprint is about to burn $3 billion setting up WiMax. Based on a very optimistic estimated uptake of 1 million users, that's $3,000 cost per user, not including operating expenses. They usually look for a 2 year max payback period, so that's at best $1,500/year per user plus subsidized hardware to break even. I don't think so.
Some light reading.
"Will Data-Only Networks Ever Make Money?"
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:33:37 GMT, Jeff Liebermann wrote in :
I think uptake might well be at least an order of magnitude (10x) higher. The reason: VoIP over WiMAX. Think dirt cheap "killer app." ;) And the usual amortization period for something like this is at least double that, bringing the amortized cost down to less then $100 per year. Then there's the additional revenue from things like IPTV. All in all I personally think Sprint Nextel has made a very good bet.
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