Sprint 4G Coming to....

[Roni at Sprint]

If you live in Atlanta, Las Vegas or Portland, Sprint announced today it's making its 4G mobile broadband service available in these markets in August.

You can read more here:

http://tinyurl.com/lph4f7
http://tinyurl.com/mdzvy4
http://tinyurl.com/qufnwr

[Dan]

bring on Buffalo :)

[bigchico68]

If you live in Atlanta, Las Vegas or Portland, Sprint announced today it's making its 4G mobile broadband service available in these markets in August.

You can read more here:

http://tinyurl.com/lph4f7
http://tinyurl.com/mdzvy4
http://tinyurl.com/qufnwr

It is already available in Atlanta, been available for a couple months.

[Dan]

It is already available in Atlanta, been available for a couple months.

Since she is the voice of sprint from a PR standpoint, maybe she is giving the official press release on the topic? Many times a service soft launches without being advertised as "available," right?

Edit: The press release was dated 7/21/09 regarding Atlanta

[ZiggyZ]

The links didn';t work for me at all.

[Roni at Sprint]

We have not yet launched 4G service in Atlanta.

We're excited to soon offer it to Atlanta residents in August. Stay tuned for more details on the exact launch date - coming soon!

Roni

[Dan]

http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1309522

[Parli]

It is already available in Atlanta, been available for a couple months.

Sure your not thinking of Clearwire?

[bigchico68]

Since she is the voice of sprint from a PR standpoint, maybe she is giving the official press release on the topic? Many times a service soft launches without being advertised as "available," right?

Edit: The press release was dated 7/21/09 regarding Atlanta

This is true, because the Atlanta 4G was softrolled in May, so you have a point maybe now they are just officially releasing the info.

[Dan]

Sure your not thinking of Clearwire?

Clearwire is sprint 4G. Sprint owns 51% of "Clearwire" as a joint venture to deploy 4G service nationwide.

As with everything though, its gonna take a while and tons of cash. I think Sprint decided to keep it as 51% in Clearwire, as opposed to Clearwire merging with Sprint, to keep "Sprint" debt lower and to get better financing rates on the new debt.

[steveymacjr]

Clearwire launched their "CLEAR" service in Atlanta and Portland.....Sprint is MVNO'ing on the CLEAR network(i wonder if this is a way around those pesky iPCS folks)
i just have to say, Bring on Charlotte...

[gage006]

It's been available in Portland for quite awhile now. Bring on the wimax equipped phones, then I'll care.

[Matt]

Moved to WiMax section.

[GoHeels919]

Will SERO plans be able to take advantage of the 4G speeds? In other words, will SERO plans include any 4G compatible phones?

[nomolos]

it's not that bad for me. i was all arounf the top end perimeter yesterday in ATL and i had 4g without fail.

[Matt]

Please read what I wrote.

http://www.sprintusers.com/details-released-about-clearwire-and-sprints-2009-wimax-roll-out/

[bigjohn]

That's an article?
In my english class that was called a PARAGRAPH. And it had virtually ZERO information that has not already been discussed here.

FYI - I tried in New Orleans last week. No signal / network, so that's not a soon-to-roll city... though they would GREATLY benefit.

John

[Jonathanlc2005]

Just thought I'd start a running list of the 4G markets, for quick reference and to consolidate both the Clearwire and Sprint 4G announcements.



(* indicates this city is live on either Clear, Sprint 4G or both)



Baltimore, MD*

Washington D.C. (2010)

Philadelphia, PA*

Boston, MA (2010)

New York, NY (2010)

Portland, OR*

Salem, OR*

Bellingham, WA*

Seattle, WA (Dec. 2009)

Tacoma, WA (Dec. 2009)

San Fransico, CA (2010)

Boise, ID*

Las Vegas, NV*

Atlanta, GA*

Millegeville, GA*

Charlotte, NC*

Raleigh, NC*

Durham NC*

Chapel Hill NC*

Cary NC*

Greensboro, NC*

Winston-Salem, NC*

High Point NC*

Chicago, IL*

Dallas/Ft.Worth TX*

Abilene TX*

Amarillo, TX*

Austin, TX*

Corpus Christi, TX*

Houston, TX (2010)

Killeen-Temple, TX*

Lubbock, TX*

Midland-Odessa, TX*

San Antonio,TX*

Waco, TX*

Wichita Falls, TX*

Honolulu, HI (Dec. 2009)

Maui, HI (Dec. 2009)



I'll edit and update this post as more markets are announced and launched.






Message was edited by: MDG - noted Boise and Bellingham, WA went live



Message was edited by: MDG - noted Clearwire went live with Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls, Texas



Message was edited by: MDG - Salem, OR & Milledgeville, GA went live on Sprint. Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls, Texas now live on Sprint as well.



Message was edited by: MDG to provide updates to remaining 2009 launch dates: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Clearwire-and-Sprint-to-bw-4135916230.html?x=0&.v=1 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Clearwire-Comcast-and-Sprint-bw-2465830078.html?x=0&.v=1



Message was edited by: MDG noted Sprint 4G now live in Philadelphia.



Message was edited by: MDG noted Charlotte, N.C.; Greensboro, N.C.; Raleigh, N.C.; Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth went live on Sprint 4G



Message was edited by: MDG noted Sprint 4G now live in San Antonio & Austin TX



http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/21112?tstart=0

[steveymacjr]

Wirelessly posted (some touch: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Sprint PPC6850SP)

Charlotte, NC also has Road Runner Mobile from Time Warner Cable which uses the same 4G network.