{"id":170440,"date":"2010-01-12T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:55:55","slug":"rumor-sprint-working-with-walmart-on-wimax-build-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170440","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Sprint Working with Walmart on WiMax Build Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12679\" title=\"wm_map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wm_map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rumor that we&#8217;d like to see play out if only for curiosity&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 According a tipster of ours, Sprint has been working with an unusual partner on a project to help build out their WiMax network.\u00a0 As we all know the carrier plans to release handsets later this year with WiMax capability.\u00a0 But what good are these cool phones if there&#8217;s no network to support it?\u00a0 Enter that mysterious partner&#8230; Wal-Mart.<span id=\"more-12678\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our source tells us that the effort to grow the nationwide WiMax network includes placing place WiMax towers on the top of all Walmart locations.\u00a0 According to them, they were advised to consider how many stores overlap each other in a 30-50 mile radius.\u00a0 Essentially, this would be enough to cover a good chunk of the United States. Plus, this would not cost nearly as much as erecting towers and dealing with hassles like zoning permissions.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen more ridiculous rumors come to fruition so it wouldn&#8217;t surprise if this pans out.\u00a0 Our source has provided us with information in the past and we feel pretty good about it.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, if you want to be creeped out, watch this time-lapse <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.flowingdata.com\/walmart\/\" ><strong>video that shows Walmarts<\/strong><\/a> as they&#8217;re opened by year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VBT5z31KGSYk-ujX_G-8i-TPXzY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VBT5z31KGSYk-ujX_G-8i-TPXzY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VBT5z31KGSYk-ujX_G-8i-TPXzY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VBT5z31KGSYk-ujX_G-8i-TPXzY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?i=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?i=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:6swKnRFnXgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?i=jsqHdWbSuo4:wgOgjn7LfFM:6swKnRFnXgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/androidguyscom\/~4\/jsqHdWbSuo4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rumor that we&#8217;d like to see play out if only for curiosity&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 According a tipster of ours, Sprint has been working with an unusual partner on a project to help build out their WiMax network.\u00a0 As we all know the carrier plans to release handsets later this year with WiMax capability.\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}