Post-Forsee, Whither Sprint's Xohm Mobile WiMAX Service?

Reprinted from Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) / WiMAX News:

Longtime readers know that I rarely cover personnel issues of BWIA-related companies, preferring to focus on technology, products, services, and operations. But every once in a while, a personnel change at a BWIA-related company seems to merit discussion here, and last week's (October 8, 2007) the abrupt "resignation" of Sprint / Nextel's CEO Gary Forsee (Google News link - perhaps short-lived) is one of those rare personnel changes that merits discussion.

The reason is that in the wake of Forsee's "resignation", many pundits are calling into question Sprint 's commitment to go forward with full deployment of its announced Mobile WiMAX service, Xohm. While they're right to ask the question... few (none?) have braved a best guess / answer... but I will.

Longtime readers know that I rarely cover personnel issues of BWIA-related companies, preferring to focus on technology, products, services, and operations. But every once in a while, a personnel change at a BWIA-related company seems to merit discussion here, and last week's (October 8, 2007) the abrupt "resignation" of Sprint / Nextel's CEO Gary Forsee (Google News link - perhaps short-lived) is one of those rare personnel changes that merits discussion.

The reason is that in the wake of Forsee's "resignation", many pundits are calling into question Sprint 's commitment to go forward with full deployment of its announced Mobile WiMAX service, Xohm. While they're right to ask the question... few (none?) have braved a best guess / answer... but I will.