Sprint Adds 4G Service to More Cities

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Date: Tuesday, March 31st, 2009, 13:42
Category: Mobile, Services

In a press release, Sprint announced that they are expanding their 4G network coverage in 2009 to cover more cities. Along with the service will be announcements, later this year, of new 4G devices and offerings.

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Sprint advertises that its 4G service is good for peak download speeds of 12 Mbps and average download speeds of 2-4 Mbps. This is available today on its Baltimore network, which was the rollout city for 4G in mid-2008.

Sprint’s 4G network relies on the WiMAX standard for mobile broadband. Recently, Google and Sprint had announced a formal partnership in deploying WiMAX technology, with Google providing search content along with Sprint. Sprint is aggresively pushing for deployment and adoption of the 4G technology to help gain leadership in the race to beat out other carriers to control the fastest mobile data network. To this end, it would seem that the 3G network technology is being left behind in spite of insufficient coverage and bandwidth across the country.

It will be interesting to see how competitors like AT&T and Apple’s iPhone will respond to Sprint’s efforts, and how they will manage to remain the leaders of “the internet in your pocket”.

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  • http://caregiverhints.com Tom

    Ok, I know it's an old post, but wanted to get something else in there and play with the editor before starting a new post.

    Tip: Enter all your post info in the HTML editor. You don't need to put in both the HTML tab and the Visual tab. It's either or, but if you are going to tweak links or the HTML, easier to just edit into the HTML editor.

    Also, MarsEdit works with the test site, but I haven't put it though it's paces.

  • http://caregiverhints.com Tom

    Also, no problem reading the URLs for the pics uploaded to PP.org. However, not sure about using the WP gallery yet.

  • http://caregiverhints.com Tom

    ALSO…in case you were wondering, there is a plugin for WP that will convert the site to iPhone format. A nice, quick, easy to set up way to get an iPhone formatted version up an running without changing the URL.

    You can see what it looks like at my site at http://www.caregiverhints.com

    I don't have pics in my posts there though.