Sprint Accelerates EV-DO Revision A Mobile Broadband Upgrade
- Implementation starts in 4th quarter 2006
- Upgrade will provide users with a mobile DSL experience
- Total mobile broadband footprint to cover 200 million people by year end 2006
- First over-the-network connection successfully completed
- EV-DO Rev A devices to be available to customers this fall
Last week Sprint successfully completed the first EV-DO Revision A data connection over the Sprint Power Vision network in San Diego, CA. This development combined with a series of other positive performance tests drove the decision to speed up the deployment plan. Additionally, Sprint has been demonstrating applications such as all IP video telephony, high performance push-to-talk (walkie-talkie service), multi-user video conferencing, real time gaming and video streaming of both content and live web cams simultaneously.
"We have taken this technology out of the laboratory and are currently integrating it into our network," said Kathy Walker, chief network officer at Sprint. "We are really pleased with the results and excited about rolling it out to our customers."
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