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So Sprint PCS is the best positioned? I could have swore that At&T was, you learn something new everyday.

 

This is also related to their chosen network type...CDMA has a clearer path to the future than it's GSM, TDMA, IDEN counterparts.

If At&t used CDMA technologies, they would have most likely been 3g nationwide by now...Verizon and Sprint have a jump on the 3g market.

(I'm not trying to start a flame war among the techno geeks here, just stating the current situation.)

WCDMA and UMTS will have it's day in the US some day....we hope....if not these forums will become pretty boring when everyone has the same technology and universal coverage.

 

They would need to reconfigure their network to fit in the spectrum they are given. 10MHz and 20MHz licenses would be a little small for what they have in some markets. They would have to change the antenna directions and a whole bunch of stuff to get it working as it was.
At least they can't buy the affiliate networks in Iowa!
Cingular can't touch Iowa!
I think there is an ABorC and a DEorF block available for each size in Des Moines. 30MHz (I call it 15) and 10MHz (5)

 

You can't be better positioned than 100% license coverage, now can you? So at least for now, Sprint has the most licenses.

It would be a nice twist, but undesireable. I'm sure Nextwave would do that if they could andif they had the money. But they were simply holding onto licenses and not doing anything with them. They didn't have any money to build out or to stay afloat, let alone buying Sprint affiliates. In conclusion, they had no way out but to sell off some of their licenses. In my opinion, the US has scarce bandwidth for it to have so many carriers. So Nextwave should do the wireless industry a big favor and sell everything off for the sake of 3G. Nextwave has no way to fit in this industry because they are a carrier wanna-be that never took off, but for some reason they seem to think they will someday. They have no resources, no network, and no hopes for survival. You can't force the dead to live.

 

They did have big dream though...check out this from their website....

Since 2001, NextWave has been operating a nationwide, mobile wireless data network in all of its licensed markets and has conducted a series of mobile data market trials with user groups utilizing various wireless data devices. NextWave is now preparing to extensively expand and upgrade its nationwide network to a next- generation broadband wireless network designed specifically to provide users with affordable, ultra-fast, always-on mobile data service on an “anywhere, anytime” basis. Our packet-switched network will support mobile connection speeds that exceed peak-rates of two megabits per second and will support a wide range of portable devices including smartphones, PDAs, tablet PCs, desktop and notebook computers, and telematics equipment. We plan to upgrade our existing data network to a fully-mobile wireless broadband network in all 95 of our licensed markets which cover over 175 million Americans and include ten of the largest markets in the United States.

Applications Supported by NextWave's Wireless Broadband Network

- High Resolution Streaming Video & Audio
- Secure Enterprise Virtual Private Network
- Web Browsing
- Large File Downloads
- Email with Attachments
- Real-time, Interactive Gaming