Xohm Soft Launch This Week?

First signs of life from Sprint's WiMax network

by Karl Bode Wednesday 05-Dec-2007 tags: business · wireless · Sprint Broadband Direct

Sprint won't "officially" launch their Xohm wireless broadband service until next year, but Phone Scoop says that a soft launch should happen within the next few days in the Chicago, Washington DC and Baltimore markets. This is according to Bin Shen, VP of Product Management and Partnership Development. When the product officially launches, users should be able to get 2-4Mbps wireless service for around $40-$50 a month.

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en102 Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA	This would be good if.... They could failover to a CDMA 1x/EVDO and WiFi service on datacards and handsets/devices (when they become available). -- Canada = Hollywood North
	permalink · 2007-12-05 14:01:04 · ·

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Re: This would be good if....

Samsung will be releasing an EVDO/WiMAX combo card. But don't know if it will be available for the 'soft' launch. Maybe not until the rollout.

Just a guess but I'd think it would be $40-$50/month for WiMAX only cards and $60/month for EVDO/WiMAX combo cards. But if Sprint were smart, they do the combo for under $50/month too to draw users to WiMAX with EVDO as a fallback.

permalink · 2007-12-05 15:53:32 ·

Romney2012 Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe in Premium join:2002-03-03 USA kudos:4	Xohm link corrected Sprint won't "officially" launch their Xohm wireless broadband service until next year Here is the Xohm link: »www.xohm.com/
	permalink · 2007-12-05 14:03:29 · ·

elister join:2006-07-17 Seattle, WA	Does the modem need to be stationary? I heard that clearwire modems had to be stationary to get a signal, that if your roaming in the back seat of a car, you wont get service. Same thing apply to Sprints? PS I had actual sprint reps at my work (I work for a small cable company that does VOIP), none of them knew about this service, had no idea what I was talking about.
	permalink · 2007-12-05 14:19:23 · ·

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Re: Does the modem need to be stationary?

said by elister:

I heard that *clearwire* modems had to be stationary to get a signal, that if your roaming in the back seat of a car, you wont get service. Same thing apply to Sprints?

From what I read, initial beta testing by Sprint/Xohm will support 802.16 stationary Wimax. But will migrate quickly to 802.16e mobile Wimax throughout 2008 and in to 2009.

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xenophon join:2007-09-17 2 edits	Sprint is rolling out true mobile WiMAX. Clearwire will upgrade to mobile, probably next year. Sprint demonstrated the mobile handoff between sites on a Chicago River boat ride demo during WiMAX World in Oct. It will be truly mobile (802.16e) but I think it has issues handing off over 60mph. That may not be fixed until 802.16m.
	permalink · 2007-12-05 15:54:16 · ·

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Sprint Connect - no issues upgrade to XOHM

I signed up for a sprint connect plan a couple months ago. I did the 2 year contract but had them add language to the contract allowing me to switch to XOHM when it becomes available at no penalty - even if the plan costs less.

I had to go through many layers at Sprint until I found someone who even knew what WiMax/XOHM was but once I did - there was no problem getting the language I wanted