On a way to equip an expected 120 million Americans by remainder of the year with a mobile Net experience that is turbo-charged, Sprint today announced plans to bring 4G engineering to several additional markets, including Los Angeles and Miami. With 27 markets already equipped with 4G and more being planned for this class, Sprint is fulfilling its promise to light up major metropolitan areas with speeds that ar up to 10 times faster1 than 3G.
Newly announced markets that volition see 4G in 2010 are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. Earlier this year Sprint announced that it planned to launch 4G in Hub of the Universe, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New House of York, San Francisco and Capitol, D.C., in 2010.
And unlike “concepts” and “lab tests” from other radio companies, Sprint is the first base subject radio carrier to actually trial, launching and marketplace 4G technology. The potency of Sprint 4G lies in its all-IP backbone, common computer architecture and 4G spectrum depth, which spring the company considerable tractability to ensure that customers rich person a top mobile experience and the most advanced 4G services available well into the future tense.
With Sprint 4G, the mobile Internet potential is virtually limitless, especially for those using a Sprint 4G-powered product, such as Overdrive™ 3G/4G Mobile River Hotspot and Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U301 by Franklin. This year, Sprint plans to introduce several 4G devices, including a unity-mode 4G data circuit board, embedded laptops and a 4G phone. Customers can leverage existing Sprint 4G products and plans at select Sprint retail stores, select C. H. Best Buy stores and local retailers, through business gross sales, via Sprint Telesales at 1-800-Sprint-1 or online at www.dash.com/4G.
Sprint is harnessing the might of 4G as the bulk shareholder of Clearwire, the independent company that is building the WiMAX network.
1”Up to 10x faster” based on download speeding comparing of 3G’s 600 kbps vs. 4G’s 6 Mbps. Industry published 3G avg. speeds (600 kbps-1.7 Mbps); 4G avg. speeds (3-6 Mbps). Actual speeds may vary. Sprint 4G is available in more than 25 markets and count, and on select devices. See www.sprint.com/4G for details.
