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Brent D'Alessandro
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Sprint has owned WiMax network for a few years now, but had planned to shut it down tonight at midnight. However, a judge has stopped that decision by ordering Sprint to keep the network open until a nonprofit groups lawsuit is over.
The lawsuit was brought upon Sprint last month and accuses Sprint of shutting down the network before nonprofits can switch to the modern LTE standard. Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen are two Educational Broadband Services that made a deal with Clearwire to let them access their internet for schools and libraries. However, Sprint took over Clearwire and WiMax in 2013, but Sprint allegedly throttled the speeds.
Sprint has said that other customers have had no problem making the switch. Unfortunately for Sprint, the judge disagrees and sided with the nonprofits, forcing Sprint to keep the network open until the lawsuit is settled.
Source: Injunction
Via: The Verge
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