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Comments     Threshold   By mcnabney on 11/21/2012 11:52:16 AM ,
Rating: 3 Not just that. Sprint agreed to both a high price for
the device (over $600) and a high quantity. So they have to buy
millions of iPhones whether they can sell them or not. This is
of particular concern for Sprint because the iPhone5 is LTE, not
Wimax. Sprint has a very very very small LTE footprint and
customers not lucky enough to be in one of those markets will be
stuck using EVDO which is extremely overused on Sprint - think
dial-up speeds. Sprint's deal to get the iPhone will sink the
company if they can't sell every device that they have committed
to buying and use those sales to attract customers.  By name99
on 11/21/2012 2:34:50 PM , Rating: 2 What you have said is true,
but Sprint are their own worst enemies in this regard, because
their plans have refused to adjust to this reality.  VZW plans
are expensive --- but they can get away with it because their
infrastru