Sprint Redefines Mobile with 4G Launch in Baltimore

September 30th, 2008

Sprint on Monday launched its next-generation 4G wireless network in Baltimore. The network, which runs on WiMAX technology, could start a new era in mobile broadband.Dubbed XOHM, the WiMAX technology extends home and office Internet connections and mobile multimedia applications in two ways. First, it lets wireless users log onto the Internet outside their four walls. Second, the network makes way for additional devices beyond Sprint phones.

As Sprint describes it, XOHM will ultimately allow wireless consumers to experience new forms of interactive communications , mobile Internet browsing, social-networking tools, location-centric services, and multimedia, including music, video and on-demand products, at faster average downlink speeds of two to four Mbps.

“This is truly an historic day with the birth of a completely new Internet-based business model that alters the dynamics of the traditional telecom industry,” said Barry West, president of Sprint’s XOHM business unit. “Wireless consumers will experience WiMAX device and XOHM service innovation on multiple levels as the computer, Internet, telecom and consumer electronics industries converge to redefine wireless mobility.”

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