{"id":359328,"date":"2010-02-24T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27060"},"modified":"2010-02-24T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T20:10:09","slug":"sprint-to-launch-4g-network-in-at-least-8-major-markets-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359328","title":{"rendered":"Sprint to launch 4G network in at least 8 major markets this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wimaxWAAAA.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wimaxWAAAA\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27067\" \/><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re reading this, chances are pretty good that you&#8217;re not on a 4G connection. Why? Because outside of a handful of cities, 4G connections just don&#8217;t exist yet.<\/p>\n<p>Take Sprint&#8217;s WiMax network, for example: as of right this second, it&#8217;s still only available in about 27 cities [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clear.com\/coverage\">coverage map<\/a>], primarily in Texas and the East Coast. That&#8217;s about to get a <em>little<\/em> bit better, with Sprint announcing today that they&#8217;ll be rolling out to 8 more cities by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-27060\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sprint had hinted at or otherwise mentioned rollouts this year for some of these cities, but today&#8217;s announcement confirms 2010 launch dates for WiMax 4G in: Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. They&#8217;re also promising to sneak a few more launches in there before the year is out, but they&#8217;re not naming any names.<\/p>\n<p>Not in one of the roll-out areas? Don&#8217;t fret; outside of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/01\/11\/review-sprint-overdrive-3g4g-wifi-hotspot\/\">Overdrive WiMax hotspot<\/a>, there&#8217;s really not too much to miss on the WiMax-front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wZUl86uzbk4MK3SNj5WbDjCTx5c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wZUl86uzbk4MK3SNj5WbDjCTx5c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wZUl86uzbk4MK3SNj5WbDjCTx5c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wZUl86uzbk4MK3SNj5WbDjCTx5c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=NF2X2es4voc:jJ7ZYtbjFm4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=NF2X2es4voc:jJ7ZYtbjFm4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=NF2X2es4voc:jJ7ZYtbjFm4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=NF2X2es4voc:jJ7ZYtbjFm4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=NF2X2es4voc:jJ7ZYtbjFm4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re reading this, chances are pretty good that you&#8217;re not on a 4G connection. Why? Because outside of a handful of cities, 4G connections just don&#8217;t exist yet. Take Sprint&#8217;s WiMax network, for example: as of right this second, it&#8217;s still only available in about 27 cities [coverage map], primarily in Texas and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}