Sunday, December 03, 2006

Sprint Nextel Launches EV-DO Rev A in Salt Lake City and Sacramento

Sprint Nextel announced this week that it has launched its EV-DO Revision A mobile data service in two new markets, namely Sacramento, California and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Both of these cities have been upgraded to the newer and faster wireless communications technology, which allows for upstream bandwidth of 300 to 400 kbps and download speeds of up to 800 kbps. The original EV-DO technology, widely used by both Sprint and Verizon, provides upstream data transfer of only 50 to 70 kbps.

EV-DO Revision A, which is expected to be available in 21 sprint markets by month’s end, will be much better suited to high bandwidth applications like video telephony, wireless music, and mobile video. It will be especially important for interactive wireless services which require a high level of upstream bandwidth.