AT&T accuses New Clearwire players of doublespeak

WiMax operates on the higher band, and AT&T knows this. Yet they want the FCC to force Clearwire to combine Sprint's 700 MHz with Clearwire and Sprint's 2.5 GHz. Clearwire isn't going to split their cash into developing LTE, when it was created to provide a WiMax network, and everyone knows this. Sprint isn't going to spend the money to develop LTE when it has WiMax, and AT&T knows this too. What AT&T is upset about, is that if Sprint gets to keep their 700 MHz license, that could allow Sprint to offer either 3G or 4G services, depending upon how fast new devices come onto the market, and how fast they can deploy WiMax. It's Sprint's opportunity to nicely transition from a 3G company to a 4G company. AT&T wants to kill Sprint, by forcing it to give up 700 MHz, which essentially lets AT&T to continue their land grab for spectrum to operate a future LTE. Shame on you, AT&T.

AT&T is not taking care of their customers. They need to have this type of competition. It keeps them on the cutting edge of technology, looking toward the future, and it is the only way to keep them from becoming a monopoly again.

The real solution is to de-regulate the existing wireless carriers. This creates a level playing field and fosters innovation.

We need more competition period. The ATT-Verizon duopoly does not have to care about their customers service. ATT oversold their available bandwidth and sold out the wireless biz leaving customers angree, many of us left. With only Verizon to go to we did. Know they to are overselling their bandwidth. Cutting/dropping/diverting calls to voicemail so they can service the more lucrative broadband data plans, as they already had my monthly fee in the bag up front. They want to insure new broadband customers have a good intital customer experience at the expense of loyal phone users hoping they will not figure out what is happening. As they still get a voicemail alert of their dropped service to service other users. we are still in range as we get are voicemail alerts, so why not our calls??? savy useres/technologist figure it out but most of the masses shrug it of and waste their time calling their voicemail then returning the calls. More competition will mean more options to poor QOS. And more different types of technologies and ways of deployment will mean more QOS for all for many reason: 1) Offloading customers to the new services will improve QOS for those who stay. 2) More types of technology use different spectrum allowing more users. 3) Acellerated deployment of new technologies like femptocells will allow more re-use of spectrum, increasing QOS for all. 4) Competion will further acelerate 3) as competitors have to fight each other by offering better QOS not less visa-vee bound and gaged custumers with less choices. 5)Open access, multi-use phones with 3G/4G/wimax/wifi will help unravel duopolies strangle hold on custumers, locked down phones and plans and open up customer choice and open source innovation that comes when the users get to be part of the creation of new ways of using their own wireless technology and making it theirs, bringing the direction of how technology back to the rightful position of the users. This is the best, fastest, most efficient way to expand technology when users are the empowered owners of the technologies. Leaving the carriers to follow the users not the other way around. This will lead to the expansion of the most nimble, flexible, ear to the ground, (read custumer focused) companies that will succeed relative to the lets leave it as is we are doing just fine getting our big fat bonuses corperate groupthink that now prevaids the industry. GO Clearwire/Sprint ! Techron (the Observer)