Sprint has continued its aggressive plans to enhance its networks enabling innovative products and services to be delivered to customers. Sprint expects to invest more than USD 7 billion in 2007 to enhance its networks and meet the demand for extensive mobile broadband coverage. This year, Sprint expects to upgrade a majority of the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network to faster Evolution - Data Optimized Revision A (EV-DO Rev. A). It will also begin to deploy its next generation broadband wireless network based on WiMAX technology and continue to enhance the Nextel National and Sprint National networks. And, during 2006 and 2007, Sprint expects to have invested approximately USD 1.4 billion in its wireline network. Sprint plans to invest up to USD 800 million in 2007 and betweenUSD 1.5 billion and USD 2 billion in 2008 in deploying a nation-wide WiMAX network. Sprint will use its extensive 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings that cover 85 percent of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets to deliver WiMAX to initial markets (Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, DC) late this year and commercially launch the service in the second quarter of next year, providing service coverage to as many as 100 million people by the end of 2008.
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Sprint to continue network investments, focus on WiMAX
- May 23rd, 2007
- 11:34 am
