Sprint XOHM

xrayman · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

WiMAX Broadband rolls out in Baltimore County
Not Sprint XOHM Mobile WiMax but Altius Broadband Internet provider is offering WiMAX service to rural communities of Owings Mills, Reisterstown, Butler and Pikesville.
The small Internet providers could be the ones that will provide WiMax wireless service to the rural US communities.
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2008/08/25/daily4.html

Alex

xrayman · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

Sprint is working on a new Xohm website, that details some of the carrier’s plans for its high-speed WiMAX network. The site is a work-in-progress, it has been gradually locked up since its discovery. An EverNote archive of the details can be at the link below. No pricing information is revealed at this time.
http://www.evernote.com/pub/leo712/Public

Alex · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: 1000 WiMax Towers, and Counting

isamu · EVDO User Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 66

No California?

Total and utter FAIL! Evil or Very Mad

n6gn · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:17 am Post subject:

xrayman · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject:

Sprint Xohm president Barry West is confident Mobile WiMax is on track with no further delays.

ebiz · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject:

The Clearwire Proxy statement for the combined clearwire-Sprint-Outside Investor entity was filed on 22Aug08. It is a very comprehensive document with detailed explanations of the new company.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1285551/000095012308009996/y63518pmprem14a.htm#tocpage

Here is a graphic of the stock transaction. Sprint and outside investors other than Google will receive Class B shares.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1285551/000095012308009996/y63518pmy6351803.gif

Clearwire now offers its OFDM Pre-WiMAX service in 46 markets in the US ( http://www.clearwire.com/store/service_areas.php ) and 4 markets overseas (Ghent and Brussels, Belgium, Dublin, Ireland and Seville, Spain). It anticipates those markets will be upgraded to mobile WiMAX in 2009. The initial mobile WiMAX markets will be Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, Portland, OR, Las Vegas, NV and Grand Rapids, MI. Those who wish a quick summary of the technology can find it at
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1285551/000095012308009996/y63518pmprem14a.htm#197

Here is a quick investment summary of parties other than Clearwire.

Investors (Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Intel). Following the Contribution and the Class B Purchase, the Investors, other than Google, will invest in Clearwire Communications a total of $2.7 billion in exchange for Clearwire Communications Voting Interests and Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests. Immediately following the receipt by the Investors, other than Google, of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests and Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests, each of the Investors, other than Google, will contribute to New Clearwire its Clearwire Communications Voting Interests in exchange for an equal number of shares of New Clearwire Class B Common Stock.

Google. Also following the Contribution and the Class B Purchase, Google will invest $500 million in New Clearwire in exchange for New Clearwire Class A Common Stock. New Clearwire will then contribute the $500 million that it receives from Google to Clearwire Communications in exchange for Clearwire Communications Voting Interests and Clearwire Communications Class A Common Interests.
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xchpstang · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

Nice! I have Clearwire coverage now in my city so Wimax in 2009 is A-OK with me.

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2003

Sprint to release a dual EVDO/WiMAX card by end of the year? Says it will be a Sprint product, not a Xohm division product. So the service would apparently be billed by Sprint rather than the new service. Sprint will be essentially become a reseller of the new Sprint/Clearwire company.

It would seem that once combo cards come out, it may not make any sense to purchase an EVDO only card depending on situation, even if you don't live in a WiMAX area.

http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=162919

isamu · EVDO User Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 66

This may have been asked previously, but is WiMax going to resolve the latency issue for wireless gaming? Can we expect to have much lower pings to the tower as a result of this technology?

And do you suspect the gaming experience will be on par with what you get at home on a dedicated hardwired connection?

xrayman · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

isamu,
Last year during a live demo in Chicago a reporter got a range of ping times from 70 to 99 ms. It would be nice if someone could post some speed tests and ping times from the new Baltimore XOHM system.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070925-when-wireless-dsl-sprint-motorola-show-off-wimax-on-the-chicago-river.html

xchpstang · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject:

A Sprint employee on the phonenews.com forums is claiming that Sprint testers are seeing 7 meg down and 3 meg up on average (Can't copy and paste the link on my phone so you'll have to look for it). That's pretty good and falls in line with the claimed 3-5 meg down that Barry West has mentioned once the network is running with multiple users. While there are many press releases hyping up future HSPA revisions and LTE throwing out numbers such as 14.4 meg, 20 meg, and even 100 megs you have to keep in these are prototypes running in labs. There are no citywide wireless networks running that fast while it looks like Wimax this time will be a reality with impressive speeds.

ebiz · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2003

Here's a ping from Reliance WiMAX in India.

I've seen a posting as low as 10ms with LOS and very near tower but average seems to be 50-80ms. But in the world of wireless, pings can be greater than 1000ms depending on conditions.