Sprint has announced plans to expand availability of its new Wi-Max service to 100 million people across the U.S. by the end of 2008.
Trials in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington DC have proved successful for the mobile broadband service provider and will form a solid base for the service's launch. The company claims that mobile Wi-Max is "one of the year's hottest topics" and "is set to alter the competitive landscape for high-speed multimedia applications". Sprint aims to provide customers with a nationwide mobile data network http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifthat is faster, cheaper and more convenient a "more enhanced multimedia quality" than anything other service.
It will work with partners Samsung, Motorola and Nokia and plans to invest up to $800 million this year and between $1.5 billion and $2 billion next year. The "advanced, data-centric mobile broadband network" will enable an "Internet everywhere experience", the company stated. Sprint started out as Kansas-based Brown Telephone Company in 1899 and was eventually reborn as a long-distance service in 1986.
"Many companies are closely examining WiMAX for "last mile" connectivity at high data rates,” states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “This could result in lower pricing for both home and business customers as competition lowers prices.”
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