Key Technologies for Mobility Strategies from Sprint

The Sprint Ahead Technology Summit has just made one step further towards reaching its intentions of providing new services and meeting the telecommunication demands that users express. The company has just announced its market branding for their WiMAX services.

Sprint Nextel has provided an update concerning the evolution that occurred while delivering the high-performance push-to-talk service, Nextel Direct Connect, on its CDMA network platform. The company has presented this progress during the Technology Summit along with their Pivot bundled services. These bring a large number of solutions for spectrum, wireless and wireline telecom fields.

Sprint has announced its WiMAX plans almost a year ago. In order to make them come true, the company has partnered with Google in order to best provide this type of mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools, all through a new mobile portal.

"Our unique set of assets allows consumers to live the mobile lifestyle and businesses to increase productivity by making any place a workplace. Sprint is best positioned in the marketplace to offer these capabilities", considers Gary Forsee, Sprint Chairman and CEO. Moreover, "We've executed the technology plan we laid out when we merged two years ago, and, in doing so, we have advanced our vision of becoming the mobility services leader", he further added.

Sprint's WiMAX services will come under the XOHMTM title and will see a soft launch by the end of 2007 in the Chicago and Baltimore/Washington markets. The full version of this technology will be available starting with the first half of 2008.

Sprint expects to generate between USD 2 billion and USD 2.5 billion in revenues for the fiscal year 2010 with more than 80 percent being generated from new lines of business. The company also has big plans for the future, as they intend to begin offering 4G mobile broadband services up to two years ahead of other national wireless carriers.