Sprint XOHM

expert007 · EVDO User Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 80

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xrayman · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:25 am Post subject:

Sprint Announces New XOHM Launch Date
"Barry West, Sprint’s chief over its high-speed wireless WiMax initiative, said the service finally would launch in Baltimore in September." and "Mobile WiMAX services will follow in the Washington DC and Chicago markets during Q4 2008." "We're already looking at other markets to launch after that." http://sprintconnection.kansascity.com/?q=node/652

"West says that over 575 Xohm WiMAX base station sites are on air, with a number of devices going through its own testing labs." "It's the only technology I know where the chipset evolution for devices is going faster than the infrastructure," "The access devices available at launch will include a Samsung AirCard, a modem from ZyXEL, a ZTE USB dongle, the Nokia Internet tablet [N810]", and Intel inside laptops. Others will follow."
http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/news/articles/20017544080.html

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2001

Good news. Let's hope the Samsung card is dual mode, with EVDO/1xRTT too.

Sprint should stop selling EVDO only devices and carry a dual mode card only, attempting to force other EVDO card makers to get into the WiMAX game.

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2001

Bad news. The Samsung card is WiMAX only...

click here

Not wise. Sprint will need to depend on EVDO as a backup until WiMAX is fully rolled out.

Woody2006 · EVDO User Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 70

kalen43 · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 131

jackrodgers · EVDO Addict Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1131

I would imagine that most of the people do the most complaining have never had the responsibility of designing or planning anything...

40 years ago in Fort Lauderdale they expanded a road, Commercial Boulevard from two lanes to 4 lanes with a divider. Two weeks after this beautifully smooth asphalt road was finished the sewer project began and dug up portions of the road running sewer pipe under the road bed...

In Okeechobee FL they are repaving two lane roads that have been worn down by heavy truck traffic. Planning records show all of the farm land has been bought up for housing projects and this road will be inadequate within two years.

And so it goes.

There is no way with a limited budged to design anything to accommodate future growth, especially in the computer industry.

CraigCraig · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 141

[quote="jackrodgers"]I would imagine that most of the people do the most complaining have never had the responsibility of designing or planning anything...

...There is no way with a limited budged to design anything to accommodate future growth, especially in the computer industry.[/quote

Jack if I were making a gazillion dollars a month I think it would be reasonable for people to assume that my company would have contingency plans to deal with various scenarios including leaks that started the 5 GB cap rumor...

Sprint's idea seems to be to quietly sneak the 5 GB cap in which didn't work and now it says there will be no overage charges but will terminate some but not all users that go over 5 GB 2 out of 3 months. Wonderful.
For users that require more than 5 GB/month, Sprints solution is to tell them to go pound sand.

The problem with Sprint caps (and Sprint) is that no one at Sprint knows what is going on. Sprint had/has no plans for damage control, they are out of touch with reality and with their customers.

In an age where often the only differentiating factor between service providers is customer service, Sprint seems to be doing it's best to ignore it's customers and customer service.

kalen43 · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 131

And again Craig......whats with this sneaking crap? The problem is some idiot sprint employee released a memo to someone he/she wasn't authorized to while the 5G cap was in the "let's talk about it" phase. The company had not developed any policy nor was it aware that a leak had occured. So of course the customer reps didn't know anything about it!

And sneak? How the heck do you get that. They would have announced it the same way VZ and AT&T did. Through the billing system.

And for most of the customer rep postions I was trained for and worked you didn't hear about a new policy (other then by rumor) until the email/training was held a few days before that policy went live.

And even today......there is going to be a 5G cap but whats going to be done about excessive useage will be on a case by case basis.....interpration of what my bill states and the latest conversation with a customer rep manager.

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2001

Why is it that every thread is turning into a cap discussion? Verizon/ATT have had caps much longer. Sprint has made no mention of a cap yet for WiMAX. No point in discussing unless they bring it up. WiMAX is designed to be a data network from the ground up and likely won't have a cap that low if at all. But given that all ISPs are heading to caps, WiMAX may have one, but not likely 5GB.

Back to topic, more than 100 WiMAX products expected to be certified by end of this year...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2219565/wimax-forum-certification

Michael · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject:

Just for this info: