Sprint reveals three more markets slated for Xohm launch
Sprint said it has hit its internal infrastructure deployment goals for Xohm a month ahead of schedule as the operator put its 1,000th WiMAX base station on the air. According to Sidecut Reports, Sprint is deploying WiMAX infrastructure in Boston, Philadelphia and Dallas/Fort Worth in addition to the previously announced markets of Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Sprint, which is merging its WiMAX business with Clearwire, is not releasing launch date information except to say that the Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Chicago markets will go live as promised by the fourth quarter. Baltimore is going live some time this month.
Xohm President Barry West promised average downloads speeds of 3 to 5 Mbps in network coverage areas along with a handful of devices for the Baltimore launch. Those devices include modems from Zyxel and ZTE as well as two devices for laptops--one a a USB type device from ZTE and the other a PC card from Samsung. Nokia's highly touted WiMAX tablet is expected to become available after the Xohm service launches in Baltimore.
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Posted by Anonymous | September 2, 2008 - 1:55pm
The correct spelling of XOHM is always in all CAPS. Checkout the XOHM website.
Posted by Sue Marek | September 2, 2008 - 2:01pm
As we have said before, companies often put their name in all-caps as a marketing strategy. It is against our editorial style to put company names in all caps.
Posted by Quemann | September 3, 2008 - 3:09pm
How do you put AT&T in your editorial style?
at&t? If XOHM is put in al caps by Sprint, it should be respected that way. What do you think?
Posted by Lynnette Luna | September 3, 2008 - 3:37pm
AT&T is an acronym. What does Xohm stand for? You don't see us capitalizing Qualcomm, which puts its entire name in caps too. We're not going to do it for Xohm either along with a huge number of companies that only do it to make their companies names stand out in press releases and marketing materials. It's a standard practice for most all publications.--Lynnette
Posted by Anonymous | September 24, 2008 - 10:22am
Actually, AT&T is the company's name, it is not an acronym (anymore). I think that the company gets to pick their name, and your editing of it is inaccurate. If the company picks a name that is advertising friendly, well... that is what all companies do.
