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Sprint WiMax launching in Los Angeles December 1

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, November 11th, 2010 at 10:48 AM

My lovely home town, Los Angeles, is going to be covered with Sprint WiMax goodness by December 1. So to all my friends and family back home, I say, “Awesome!” While most Angelenos are probably seeing pockets of WiMax coverage here and there already, the official launch should see more stable and perhaps wider coverage zones.

Here in New York City, we’d been seeing WiMax in most of the boroughs leading up to the official launch on November 1, so we’d expect the same sort of business for L.A. in just a few weeks. If you live in L.A. and you haven’t seen your 4G icon light up whenever you turn that particular radio on, you may see it close to or on that day. You’ll also be able to expect anywhere between 3-9Mbps download speeds on average depending on where you are, but it’s certainly much faster than what you’ve been getting over Sprint’s EV-DO network.

[Via Sprint Twitter, photo credit]

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Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.