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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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]