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Sprint's 4G Xohm WiMax: How fast is it?

To see just what WiMax is, how it works and what it's actually capable of, I went to Baltimore, the first U.S. city to offer WiMax service commercially, to try it out.

| Opinion | Mobile & wireless | 10/10/08 at 3:05 pm |


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Sprint hopeful on funding as WiMax rolls out

Adoption of Sprint Nextel's Xohm WiMax service has been better than expected since it launched in Baltimore on Sept. 29, and the carrier is confident it will be able to fund the rest of its national network rollout despite the current economic crisis, Sprint executives said Wednesday.

| News | Mobile & wireless | 10/08/08 at 1:09 pm |


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Clearwire CEO on WiMAX strengths, enterprise apps

If WiMAX catches on as a popular broadband standard in the United States, Clearwire will get a lion's share of the credit. After all, while its partners such as Sprint, Google and Comcast will be supplying money and infrastructure, it is Clearwire that has been tasked with building a WiMAX network that spans the whole United States. At the WiMAX World convention in Chicago this week, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff sat down with Network World's Brad Reed to discuss his company's plans to deploy WiMAX in the United States, what benefits WiMAX services will have for enterprise users, and what is WiMAX's niche in the mobile broadband market as a whole.

| Interview | Mobile & wireless | 10/06/08 at 11:39 am |


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Sprint's WiMax shines on price, not on coverage

Prices and terms for the WiMax service that Sprint Nextel launched on Monday stand up against other wired and wireless broadband options, but a key measure -- coverage -- remains a question mark.

| News | Mobile & wireless | 09/30/08 at 4:20 pm |


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