Sprint will invest $2.5 billion by the end of next year in WiMAX by Corina Ciubotaru

Data connections have reached 4G with the advent of WiMAX, the network that has a broader range than wireless at speeds five times higher. Sprint Nextel is one of the companies that want a piece of the WiMAX action and is planning to spend $2.5 billion by 2011 to develop it. The first cities boasting coverage from Sprint and its associate, Clearwire Corp. by the fourth quarter of 2007, are Washington, Baltimore and Chicago. WiMAX isn't expected to interfere with Sprint's EVDO service, but it's intended to work both on laptops and on mobile phones. XOHM (pronounced "zoam") is the name of the new service, which is expected to have 100 million users by the end of 2008. It will most likely bring profits between $2 billion and $2.5 billion starting in 2010, the year when developers hope the users count will reach 125 million. Besides Clearwire, Sprint Nextel has also signed agreements with Nokia, Samsung and Motorola to develop WiMAX compatible services, and with Google. The devices using this latest technology will benefit from a Web portal designed especially for them by the smart folks at Google.Right now, DSL cable connections have the highest speeds but technology is evolving fast and soon, there will come a time when the Internet will be all around us, broadcasted wirelessly from specific locations using protocols similar to WiMAX. The world will be different then and it's up to each of us to prepare for it and embrace the advances that come along with it.

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