With the coming of 5G, and following on the recent news of AT&T’s announced shutdown of its 3G network, Sprint quietly let customers with legacy devices know that it will cease activating 3G-only devices beginning April 30th, 2019. Although activations of older devices will end on April 30th (The full list of impacted devices), those with already […]
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2015 RV Mobile Internet Year in Review
2015 has been a fabulous year for keeping connected on the road – with technology options, speeds, and coverage all getting better than ever. This is our end-of-year quick update on the state of the RV mobile internet world – chronicling some of the major changes that happened in 2015, and giving a glimpse at what we’re most looking forward […]
Farewell WiMAX: Sprint’s Original 4G Network (Mostly) Shuts Down Today
If you are one of the few remaining customers on Sprint’s WiMAX network – it is time to say goodbye. Today (November 6th) is the official end-of-days for Sprint’s legacy 4G WiMAX network. From today forward, WiMAX phones and hotspots are essentially worthless unless they also support LTE, or falling back to Sprint’s 3G EVDO service. […]
Clearwire Going Clear Away – Formal WiMAX Shutdown Scheduled for November
The writing has been on the wall for WiMAX for a long time. We first warned about the end of days coming to Sprint’s former flagship 4G network last July, and again in October. But some customers of Sprint subsidiary Clear were still caught off guard yesterday to receive a formal legal notice email letting […]
Sprint’s WiMax Network Shut-Down: Nov 6, 2015
Sprint customers who have been served by their previous attempt at 4G called WiMax have had the writing on the wall for a while. Sprint has confirmed that they are fully shutting down that network on November 6, 2015. Customers have just over a year to make their switch if they don’t want to fall back to only 3G […]
The End of WiMAX is Near
Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network has been clearly a technological dead end for a while. But in researching ‘The Mobile Internet Handbook’, I was able to dig up when that dead end turns into a brick wall. Sprint is currently planning to shut down it’s WiMAX network entirely by the end of 2015, freeing up spectrum […]