Sprint Nextel announced initial service launches in several markets by the end of 2007 and expects to reach 100 million people across the country by yearend 2008. Sprint has chosen Samsung for PC cards available in both single WiMAX mode and dual CDMA 1xEV DO/WiMAX mode for WiMAX service launch use. Additionally, Sprint has selected ZTE Corporation to supply multiple WiMAX 802.16e devices including PC cards in express and USB form factors as well as advanced modem solutions. Sprint Nextel also chose ZyXEL Communications for modem products.
WiMAX service areas for the 2008 launch include Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City and Minneapolis. Samsung will develop Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Washington D.C. Nokia will develop Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and Seattle.
In large part, Sprint Nextel's early success will be determined by customer demand for high speed access services. In part that is because Sprint Nextel seems to be focusing its WiMAX effort on non-voice services supported by mobile data devices. The other reason is that sharing photos, Web content and ringtones, the leading 3G apps, can be provided on the existing network.
The Sprint WiMAX mobile broadband network will use the company’s 2.5GHz spectrum holdings, which cover 85 percent of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets.
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