WiMax Coming to Chicago Next Month2009-10-23 10:03 by DanielaTags: WiMAX
WiMax will finally go on sale next month in Chicago, a city that was to have been one of the first places where the high-speed wireless service was offered in the U.S. Chicago was on the cutting edge of Sprint Nextel's original push for WiMax in 2007, along with the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area. A network in the city had undergone trials by mid-2008. But upheaval in the company and some technical issues, such as providing enough backhaul to wired networks, intervened. A new WiMax strategy brought Sprint together with wireless broadband provider Clearwire, several cable operators and other companies, a group that could provide the billions of dollars needed to build a national network. But Sprint announced only on Thursday that it would begin selling services on a WiMax network in Chicago next month, alongside its Clearwire joint venture and Comcast. All three service providers also will launch services in Philadelphia over the next several weeks and in the Seattle/Tacoma area in early December. In addition, there will be Clearwire and Sprint services on sale in three North Carolina cities and three Texas cities in November, and in Hawaii in early December. Read more -here-
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