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WiMAX Could Reshuffle Telecom's Leadership

By Tero Kuittinen

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 After a year of chaos, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire managed to sew together a fascinating quilt of companies that want to build a new kind of mobile data market. The new WiMAX alliance has a variety of motives, but the main thrust is an attack clearly aimed at AT&T, Verizon and major mobile-handset vendors. The success of the venture likely depends on the quality of the devices, of course, but new pricing models may be the most important factor here. Intel and Google could be the big winners. Smaller-Scale Services It's clear that Google is vexed with the near-monopoly that AT&T and Verizon are developing in the U.S. mobile data market -- its decision to back WiMAX may be linked to its desire to experiment with ad-driven mobile services. The big mobile operators are wedded to the old business model of locking consumers into long-term contracts that are...

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