Thursday, September 27, 2007

Xohm: No Contract, No Subsidy, No Termination Fees, No Obligation


Sprint says Xohm WiMAX customers will not have to sign contracts and won't charge any termination of service fees either. Users will buy their own air interface cards without Sprint subsidizing the hardware. The whole message: "You don’t owe me anything, I don’t owe you anything."

Well, not quite. Users might just be offered subscription plans whose cost declines over time as the length of the relationship grows. Nice. Reward a customer for loyalty. Of course, Sprint also knows that customers with long tenure are the most profitable customers it has. So there is more margin to shave to keep those customers happy.

Xohm is expected to operate at aobut 2 Mbps to 4Mbps downstream and 1 Mbpt to 2 Mbps upstream. Pricing probably will be set about about $30 or $35 a month.

It is a small step, but one of many being taken throughout the wireless ecosystem to bring more user freedom.

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