After Verizon and Cingular win for Qualcomm’s MediaFlo technology, now SprintNextel is having second thoughts on being the third copycat in the mobile TV game, and has decided not to use the MediaFlo network, at least not for the time being, reports RCR....the carrier might reconsider its decision in the future, however.
RCR has a good explanation of why Sprint’s walking away: “[It is] perhaps is a nod to the carrier’s increasingly full plate. Thanks to the merger of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. in 2005, Sprint Nextel oversees both a CDMA network and an iDEN network. Further, the carrier is in the process of launching a WiMAX network with its 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings. Adding a dedicated mobile TV network to the mix…could further complicate Sprint Nextel’s technological situation.”
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