http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/ Engadget Mobile Comments for SK Telecom still interested in scooping up Sprint? http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/Jul 15th 2008 6:07PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/
They are looking to not make the same mistake by going with a technology controlled by a tyrannical company like Qualcomm; they are going with an IETF standard that was designed from the ground-up to be able to be enhanced greatly for speed and mobility; even some day be the successor to WiFi or at least be bundled with it in chipsets. The other advantage is, while they are required to have less distance between towers, they can essentially have an infrastructure that is consumer-run with future wireless routers being built with dual WiFi/WiMax chipsets and serving as range extenders to dead areas.

On top of it all, their first device to use the technology will be the Nokia N810 WiMax edition, which runs a debian-derivative OSS platform called Maemo which is soon to be complimented by the open-sourcing of Symbian OS. The provisioning of devices will be handled via SSL OTA.

No ESN numbers, no SIM cards, only MACs. Switching devices will be as easy as logging into your Sprint account.

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what sprint brings to the table. holy crap that had me rolling lol]]>Jul 15th 2008 10:40PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/Korea:WiBro :: US:WiMax]]>Jul 16th 2008 9:45AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/
and what the guy above me said.]]>Jul 15th 2008 11:48PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/07/15/sk-telecom-still-interested-in-scooping-up-sprint/Jul 16th 2008 9:36AM