Sprint's Mobile WiMax Wi-Fi Mobile Hotspot 'Overdrive' coming soon, pricing yet to be announced... Both Sprint and Verizon had been offering users the MiFi, a small, Novatel-created device that turns your 3G connection into a Wi-Fi hotspot (though if you'll recall, back in 2005 Verizon used to whine that such technology violated your terms of service). As Sprint migrates to Mobile WiMax, Engadget has an early sneak peek at the new mobile hotspot they'll be offering to support the speedier technology. Sprint's new "Overdrive" dual-mode WiMAX / EV-DO mobile hotspot offers 100 feet of Wi-Fi connectivity once hooked into Sprint's Mobile WiMax network, but the pricing has yet to be solidified. The device will be unveiled at CES along with other new toys for Sprint's 4G network, including their new dual-mode (WiMax/EVDO) U301 USB modem.
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kudos:4 |  Nice tool for commuter vans ?
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New York, NY | Re: Nice tool for commuter vans ? Not just vans, this would be great in buses too. The real drawback I have experienced when using 'in-bus' service has been that the speed is worse than dial up. Its literally so bad that you put your laptop away since it doesnt work. However, with a wimax backhaul the end user experience could be quite good. | |
| | | | | Re: Nice tool for commuter vans ? said by wifi4milez:Not just vans, this would be great in buses too. The real drawback I have experienced when using 'in-bus' service has been that the speed is worse than dial up. Its literally so bad that you put your laptop away since it doesnt work. However, with a wimax backhaul the end user experience could be quite good. There are already some city buses that have MiFi type setups. I think buses in Honolulu do it with Sprint sponsoring it. Other cities might be as well. | |
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kudos:1 | financial suicide Time to crash the network and make 4G be 3G. Sprint is now encouraged the plebs to share a connection instead of buying individual connections. Time to short CLWR. | |
| | | | Re: financial suicide patcat predicting doom and gloom for WiMAX and Clearwire. I'm thoroughly shocked...  | |
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1 edit | Re: financial suicide said by DarnellP:patcat predicting doom and gloom for WiMAX and Clearwire. I'm thoroughly shocked... Luckily for Sprint the transition to LTE will not be that hard to do in the event WiMax fails and it will. | |
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said by NJBoricua75:Luckily for Sprint the transition to LTE will not be that hard to do in the event WiMax fails and it will. Why specifically will it fail? | |
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kudos:1 | Re: financial suicide said by Roulette00 :
Why specifically will it fail?
Because Wimax is the 21st century version of IDEN, a standard that will never have any domestic roaming partners. | |
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kudos:3 | Re: financial suicide said by patcat88:said by Roulette00 :
Why specifically will it fail?
Because Wimax is the 21st century version of IDEN, a standard that will never have any domestic roaming partners. Yet, the IDEN network covered the major metro areas and had better reliability than the others.. (I used to love going in elevators with a few people on their phones as when the doors closed and the rest of the people lost their calls, I could actually hear mine)
But anyway, my contacts at sprint have told me that the Twin Cities market is getting WiMax this year and the speeds are supposed to be 50/60 meg tiers.. and since it takes less towers to deploy over the others, this also has its advantages.
WiMax isn't going to be dead by any means. I think you're going to find that Sprint will be much easier to deal with than at&t and Verizon, especially, when it comes to data use.. Verizon spends each day in the board room figuring out how to piss off their customer base and at&t tries to figure out, daily, how to get more money from their customers.
What good is technology when the corporate CEOs are trying to figure out ways to get restrict the way you use your service while trying to charge you more? | |
| | | | | | | | | Re: financial suicide said by fiberguy:Yet, the IDEN network covered the major metro areas and had better reliability than the others.. (I used to love going in elevators with a few people on their phones as when the doors closed and the rest of the people lost their calls, I could actually hear mine) Good point and I'm sure that patcat also forgets that pre-merger, Nextel had the lowest churn and highest ARPU in the business. He probably should choose his analogies better.
As far as "never" having any domestic roaming partners: »www.telecoms.com/11764/wimax-for···ng-trial
Never is a long time... | |
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3 edits | Re: financial suicide said by DarnellP:Good point and I'm sure that patcat also forgets that pre-merger, Nextel had the lowest churn and highest ARPU in the business. He probably should choose his analogies better. And how many of those "customers" were forced to by their employer (service techs, first responders, utility companies, other government, tradesmen) to have the phones? Nextel was mostly for the institutional blue collar users before the merger (especially group Direct Connect). The only other niche that Nextel had (through Boost) was the low income/teen crowd since before MPCS/CRKT and the big 4's unlimited plans, your only choice for unlimited minutes was Direct Connect.
»www.airpeak.com/index.fx doesn't roam on Nextel, and Nextel doesn't roam on it. There is an actual use for airpeak, before airpeak sold their SMR license for Washoe County to Nextel, airpeak was your only choice for cellphone service at »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man
Another example, Southern LINC roams on Nextel, Nextel won't roam on Southern LINC even though they have superior coverage in their region.
For Clearwire, there will be no roaming, and not even "911 only" mode, unless you happen to have a working CC on you and 10 minutes to reactivate your wimax card on another wimax network (while not receiving your VOIP calls). And no guarantee of there being an affordable day or hour rate. So you might have to sign up for a month of service with the "fixed wireless" wimax ISPs. And so much about keeping your IP the same so all your apps go down for the 10 minute reactivation. | |
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When combined with a CLEAR USB, the CLEAR Spot creates a fully portable, secure Wi-Fi network from your activated CLEAR USB modem anywhere within the CLEAR 4G WiMAX coverage area. Bridge the gap between WiMAX and WiFi and share your connection with up to 8 Wi-Fi enabled devices.
It allows you to share your
CLEAR USB Modem
Just plug the Clear USB Modem into any standard USB port on your laptop to get online anywhere in CLEAR coverage. This portable device fits in your pocket for the ultimate in mobility.
you plug the clear modem into the clear spot | |
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@verizon.net | Big Deal A hacked Motorola Droid will do just that. | |
| | | | Re: Big Deal OMG a hacked (something) will do (something)!!!!111!!111
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@verizon.net | Re: Big Deal said by lidocaineus:OMG a hacked (something) will do (something)!!!!111!!111 Shhhh.... not so loud, they'll hear us, and then everybody'll know. | |
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1 edit | said by tmh :
A hacked Motorola Droid will do just that.
That's nice, ummmm, but the majority of the user base out there isn't going to be hacking anytime soon... so that's a moot point! Not to mention, it's a constant struggle between the hackers and the providers.. if you have an iPhone, you'd know just that... and the jail-broken phone users got just what they deserved.. hacked themselves. Wow, what a great way to spend your time.. hacking. | |
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2 edits | Droid's not 4G...... and anyways winmo phones have been able to share 3G connections forever, but that's off-topic.... (Internet Sharing is built into the WinMo OS, the carriers have to resort to hacking making changes in the registry to hide the internet sharing or force it to use a different connection they designate for PAM services) | |
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