Centerfield

Wireless Internet Coming To You?

This has some real potential to get decidedly more and better ISP competition with some mobility.

There's an interesting surprise here, I judge having to do with high cost and problems in the next generation wireless technology that makes this stuff feasible, WiMax. Originally, Sprint had committed to get their own network over to WiMax and have it done years ago. Didn't happen. Evidence is that early WiMax was unreliable for years longer than earlier wireless tech curves suggested. There were also reasons to believe that Google was looking to get in on WiMax.

We can also see from the fact that there are SO many partners involved, and a huge sum involved -$14.5B, that WiMax must be way expensive. Too expensive for Sprint and others to go it alone. We can only hope it happens in a way that allowe competition on the new network.