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Sprint Rolls out WiMAX Access

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 8, 2006 @05:24AM from the to-go-with-their-new-card-toy dept.

Tokin84 writes "Today, Sprint announced that it would pour over $4.5Bn into a 2.5Ghz WiMAX system to be rolled out across the country. From the article: 'Sprint Nextel, the nation's largest holder of radio spectrum in the precious 2.5 GHz band, has reportedly chosen to deploy Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) as the foundation of its technology platform for the carrier's mobile broadband Next-Generation Network (NGN) build-out.'"

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Re:Here's an idea... by Synic · 2006-08-08 05:34 · Score: 5, Interesting

If you could use wireless reliably on a desktop machine over a equivalent or higher speed than your current wired connection, why would you say no to it?