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Telecom & Wireless

WiMax Nation: Sprint Turns To Nokia

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Stocks:  (S)(NOK)(MOT)(INTC)

Sprint is gunning its WiMax engines as it gets ready to spread the service across the US. Nokia is about to be selected for infrastructure equipment along with current suppliers Samsung and Motorola. The Sprint project is slated to be able to reach 100 million potential customers by 2008.

Sprint has lost a lot of its fan base. The stock was at almost $27 in April. It now trades around $19. It integration with NexTel was considered a train wreck. But, WiMax, a system not being used by Sprint’s major competitors. And, the economics could be compelling.

The Wall Street Journal believes that major suppliers like Motorola are putting capital into the Sprint WiMax roll-out. Sprint says it is spending $3 billion, but it is not entirely clear how much of that is blended with supplier investment.

Intel, Motorola, Samsung, and now Nokia are supporting WiMax build outs.

If there bet is right, Sprint’s stock is headed North.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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