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Sprint plans Launch of commerical WiMAX service in Q2 2008

Categories: Announcements, Sprint, WiMAX
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 11:49 AM

Sprint announces Q2 2008 goal for commercial rollout of its WiMAX networkSprint has confirmed more details on the rollout of their WiMAX service. A Q2 2008 goal has been set for the commercial rollout of its mobile broadband service, upon successful completion of Sprint’s WiMAX trials in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Sprint says that they plan “to invest up to $800M in 2007 and between $1.5 billion and $2 billion in 2008. Sprint will use its extensive 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings that cover 85 percent of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets to deliver WiMAX to initial markets (Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, DC) late this year and commercially launch the service in 2Q of next year, providing service coverage to as many as 100 million people by the end of 2008.”

WiMAX is finally (almost) upon us! We’re kinda envious of those test markets though…

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  • Stefan Constantinescu

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  • Viipottaja

    true, i guess