Sprint’s WiMAX Moving Forward Before 4G
It looks as though the carrier wars to get their next mobile high-speed offerings out there is heating up. WiMAX, the wireless technology providing up to 10Mbps of transfer speed is starting to pick up steam ala Sprint. The pressure of rival carriers starting to roll out their 4G networks is giving each company the stage to be the first one out to show what they can offer the marketplace.
According to Engadget “Without giving a hard figure, the company[SPRINT] says that it expects to launch WiMAX service in “many” markets this year, with several notables among the lot: Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC are all called out by name. SF and the Big Apple in particular will be huge wins”
The deployment of Sprint’s WiMAX will offer technologies to rival the Long Term Evolution (LTE) projects that many carriers around the world including Verizon and AT&T are adopting to build a the last leg of the 4G networks for the demands of speed and capacity consumers are asking for.
The race is interesting to watch and could decide what technologies dominate the next iteration of data communications. Billions are at stake, we’ll see how this shakes out for the next chapter of data communications.
BONUS MAKE YOURSELF LOOK SMARTER TIDBIT: If you’ve heard all the rah-rah about 3G networks and heard about 4G, all that the “G” means is generation. 3rd generation, 4th generation, it has nothing to do with any scientific mumbo jumbo – but it sounds cool doesn’t it?
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