Sprint adheres to its roadmap, turns on WiMAX in San Francisco Bay Area
Technically speaking, it’s not actually the 28th of December in the Bay Area yet, but Sprint’s already out in front with its announcement that WiMAX connectivity has been activated in and around the city of San Francisco. We were promised this development exactly three weeks ago, back when Los Angeles and Washington DC were first familiarizing themselves with the glorious new speed, and today the Bay Area, which also includes San Jose, Palo Alto and Oakland, adds to a total of 71 metropolitan markets that have been lit up with Sprint’s finest wireless offering. Guess Verizon had better start fast and keep running if it wants to keep up, eh?
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Novatel’s MiFi 4082 is the WiMAX-capable hotspot the Overdrive has been dreading
Sprint's Overdrive from Sierra Wireless has been handling the WiMAX mobile hotspot duties on Sprint for most of this year, but it's been walking that road alone. Novatel, which took the mobile hotspot concept mainstream with its venerable MiFi line -- has been absent from the 4G race so far...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: concept, entry, hotspot, mainstream, mifi4082, sierra-wireless, walking, wimax, wireless
Clear iSpot gets easy web-based ‘jailbreak’
For hackers, Clear must have known that its iSpot mobile hotspot would be hard to resist -- $100 for the device contract-free plus unlimited WiMAX for $25 a month is a pretty insane deal, after all, and the only catch is that they try to lock non-iOS devices out of the action. Indeed, it took mere hours for unlocks to start coming out of the woodwork, but now it's easier than ever: the developer of one of the original iSpot hacks has circled back to create a new unlock that requires nothing more than a couple link clicks while you're on a machine connected to the hotspot.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, arbitrary, caution, clear, entry, hacks, hotspot, ispot, jailbreak, result, sorts, unlock, wimax, woodwork
Sprint: 4G tablet coming in 2011
We can't begin explain our exasperation at running a Samsung Galaxy Tab on Sprint's 3G , knowing full well the WiMAX airwaves floating just overhead could make our experience speedy. Thankfully, we won't have to dwell on our frustration for long, because a Sprint executive told Forbes that a 4G tablet will arrive in 2011.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: business, cdma, engadget, executive-told, experience, forbes, frustration, goodies-on-cdma, operating, our-frustration, paget, tablets, wimax, wimax tablet
EVO Shift 4G (aka HTC Knight / Speedy) shows up in accessory pics, exhibits dubious dress Sense
Can't have enough Androids in your life? Well, here's another one! Alternately known as the Knight or the Speedy , HTC's upcoming Android device has made a couple of premature photo appearances in an effort to help sell some cases for its future self.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accessories, evo shift, evoshift, htc, knight, qwerty slider, slider, sprint, wimax
Sprint wouldn’t mind if T-Mobile bought 4G spectrum from Clearwire
Considering Sprint's heavy investment in Clearwire -- and the fact that it shares its WiMAX network with the company -- you can understand why it might be a little weary of letting other carriers in on the spectrum. That said, a Goldman Sachs analyst that apparently met with Sprint execs this week has said that they "have encouraged" a wholesale spectrum deal that would bring cash in from T-Mobile USA -- a company that has yet to settle on a next-gen network strategy beyond HSPA+ -- though it would ultimately depend on the price. Considering Clearwire's somewhat bleak financial picture , it seems likely that Sprint's looking at this as a do-or-die situation -- it isn't necessarily interested in dumping cash into the company by itself ad nauseam, but if it allows the company to falter, that could have unsavory consequences on Sprint's own 4G ambitions.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ambitions, clearwire, engadget, execs, goldman, lte, nauseam, price, spectrum, sprint, strategy-beyond, usa, wimax
Sprint lights up first 4G network in New York City, among other locales
We gave a fortunate sect of consumers a taste of WiMAX during our recent reader meetup in the Big Apple , but now it's available to all: as promised , Sprint has just went live with New York City's first 4G network. With the holiday sales season just around the bend, this honestly couldn't have come at a better time, and considering the bandwidth strain that hamstrings the city, it could very well make things easier on everyone if the adoption rate is high
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bandwidth, cdma, new haven, newyork, nyc, recent-reader, result, total, trenton, waitin, wimax
Sprint CEO claims WiMAX is here to stay, says Clear’s LTE trials were for potential multi-mode phones
Sprint and Clearwire have characterized LTE as complimentary to WiMAX time and again , but if that doesn't allay your suspicions of turncoat tactics in the wireless data space, take it from Sprint CEO Dan Hesse's lips. "Our 4G strategy is WiMAX, full stop!" he told GigaOM , adding that LTE isn't necessarily on Sprint's roadmap.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ceo, clear, dan hesse, data, mode, roadmap, space, sprint, suspicions, the-possible, the-wireless, trials-were, very-intriguing, wimax
Sprint CEO thanks iPad for uptick in Overdrive demand
Well, wouldn't you know it? Seems that tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign may actually be working
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, ceo, danhesse, hotspot, ipad, mifi, mobile, overdrive, result, wifi, wimax, wwan
Sprint promises WiMAX in NYC on November 1, LA on December 1, and San Francisco a few weeks later
The fact that Sprint and Clearwire have teamed up to deliver WiMAX to New York, LA, and San Francisco isn't news .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: around-the-end, clearwire, entry, full-consumer, losangeles, maintained-once, modes, newyork, nyc, sanfrancisco, sprint, verizon, wimax