Finally some WiMAX news. While Clearwire and Sprint’s 4G services continue to confuse everyone as to each one’s jurisdiction, its good to know that some parts of the United States actually are getting WiMAX. According to the usual run-of-the-mill boring press release, Sprint will be bringing its WiMAX support to Las Vegas, NV; Portland, OR and Atlanta, GA. Th. If Sprint manages to stay on schedule, it may well follow through on its WiMAX roadmap. As for pricing, Sprint’s 4G broadband mobile plan will cost you $69.99 per month for unlimited 4G (includes 5GB of 3G data) and $10 day passes are available.
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LTE is becoming a clearer reality in the U.S. with every passing day and Sprint is the one carrier who hasn’t made any recent announcements about how it plans to deal with that reality. So finally we’re pleased to hear something of Sprint and its efforts to bring some sort of reason to subscribers to stay on board, WiMAX. It’s not official, but a possible leaked roadmap tells us that that rest of 2009 may come with more action that we anticipated. There will be a WiMAX rollout starting from Baltimore via some kind of service update and then moving on to a New York, LA, or San Francisco launch. Sweet.
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4G may have been out there for a month but Clearwire has only just now made its own WiMAX presence known to the people of Atlanta. It is among the other 15 cities to be covered or are already covered between now and the down end of 2010. It looks to cover around 1200 square miles and 3 million people, so this may as well be one of the biggest launches to date. Atlanta is a city where the airways are thick with traffic and the airport is frequently off schedule on good day so those of you waiting for an obviously expected delayed flight will no longer have to pay the airport people for WiMax usage especially when you prefer to hiss at them anyway. Atlanta is offering the WiMAx at $20 per month for a home plan, $40 per month on mobile and day passes at $10.
Clear (formerly Clearwire, formerly Xohm) has decided to expand its network. If you thought the days of WiMax were over, think again. Manufacturers are also not one to stand by and not reap in the revenues to be had from the US expansion. In this regard, Samsung has just let slip information on its SWD-M100 Mondi, which the company claims is the first handheld WiMAX device for the States. Coooool. It’s a slider QWERTY and let’s just hope it has better luck than the Nokia Internet Tablets. The SWD-M100 Mondi also packs a d-pad and a touchscreen to fill that insatiable 3G internet addiction of yours. No official word as to when this baby will be launched or for how much.
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