[dorkbotdc-blabber] Re: WiMax not official in DC until 2010?

[Alberto Gaitán]

Yep, I'm up and running. Wonder what happened. I spoke with an 
investment banker type this past weekend who was poo-pooing the Palm Pre 
because he said they were launching it on Sprint's network and that 
Sprint was broke.

I do know that (until they teamed up with ClearWire?) one big issue was 
getting enough backhaul capacity.

Speedtest.net results:
down: 5232 kb/s
up: 2130 kb/s
ping (Ashburn, Va): 105ms

$25/month for 6-months, then $35/month; option for $50/month "for life".

I'd like to take the modem around town (don't have the USB dongle), 
plugged into an inverter to see how it does.

Alberto



On 3/25/09 6:08 PM, Tim Slagle wrote:
> Here is a press release from Sprint:
>   http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1269807
> 
> They say DC won't even be in the first 10 cities to get official WiMax/Xohm/Sprint4G service, it's not coming here until 2010!  Maybe they are too busy printing up new ads and packaging every time their marketing department changes the name to get the service actually working...
> 
> Did you wind up using it Alberto?  Maybe this means the people who can get it here will have it all to themselves for a while.
> --Tim
>