An interesting story with huge ramifications for Sprint and the mobile industry.
The Department of Defense, working with the FCC, DHS, the President, and Congress has brokered a framework agreement to purchase Sprint Nextel's iDEN network as the first phase of a national overhaul of its security framework in regards to communication.
Here's Sprint's master plan:
Sprint intends to deploy a national, non-fixed WiMax network with as much, if not more coverage than the existing CDMA network
This will enable Sprint to not only be a national ISP, but to remove common conceptions of fixed ISP
This move makes the recent news of a Sprint co-branding wireless deal with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox slightly more interesting. The deal would give Sprint priority access to Wimax spectrum, letting those three cable giants offer re-branded Wimax to better compete with baby Bell Wimax offerings.
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