Sprint Begins WiMax Soft Launch
Posted on December 13, 2007 By: Mike, VoIP Facts: The Blog email author
Filed Under WiMax
As promised, Sprint is launching its Xohm WiMax Network in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington D.C., beginning with a test group of several hundred Sprint employees having access to the network by Christmas, according to Dan Jones of Unstrung.
Stage two of the soft launch is expected to begin in Q1 of ’08 adding some “friendly customers” and technology vendors to the mix, with full scale commercial deployment happening in the second quarter.
Sprints commitment to a nationwide WiMax build out has come under question since the firing of CEO Gary Forsee and the more recent announcement of the dissolution of a non-compete agreement with Clearwire Communications.
While the future of WiMax in the U.S. is now in doubt due to Sprints perceived backing off of a nationwide build out, companies like Israel’s Alvarion are successfully winning bids in emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East, as noted by Zack Miller in his post on blogging stocks.
Sprint is now evaluating their position on WiMax, and will let us know sometime next year. Another WiMax rollout planned for four major cities in Texas with Nokia Siemens providing the equipment is, as far as we know, on track for 2008.
Previously, Sprint has said it had planned to offer its Xohm WiMax services to 100 million subscribers by the end of 2008.
first Sprint WiMax data session between Chicago, Arlington, and Herndon Va.
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