Do you know where your WiMax service is? Unfortunately, S.Korea as Sprint backtracks on the planned April launch of its commercial Xohm service. This according to an official company spokesman. Sprint says that the launch has been delayed to “later in the year” which many expect to be as early as summer. Even then we’re likely only talking about Chicago, Baltimore, and D.C. areas. Sprint’s CTO, Barry West, said that things are on track for a commercial launch of their Xohm service in April in the Baltimore, Washington, DC and Chicago markets.
At that time, up to 10 WiMax devices should be ready to roll which, if our Xohm booth tour is any indication, would include a WiMax-enabled Samsung Q1 UMPC, Nokia N800, and Eee PC among a few laptop and desktop modems. The service will sell for “reasonable rates” with plans to cover daily, weekly, monthly, or longer commitments.
With this service you can downloads at 3Mbps to 5Mbps speeds and 1Mbps to 1.5Mbps upload while on the go. Sprint will at least cooperate with Clearwire — a former Xohm partner.
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