Sprint Finally Launches Xohm . . . In Baltimore at Least
Posted Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:22:23 EDT by Philip Solis
Sprint finally launched Xohm in Baltimore yesterday. This announcement is a bit lackluster because it is just one city, and it has been delayed about a year as Sprint worked through a few technical issues and worked on its deal with Clearwire, Intel Capital, Google, Comcast, Time Warner, and Bright House Networks. Coverage includes Baltimore and some spottier coverage that extends into suburbs of Baltimore for now. Sprint will continue to fill in this coverage and add more cities later this year to reach its goal of covering 15M people. More substantial network buildouts will occur throughout 2009, so it will take another year to get some decent coverage across major cities.
One interesting thing to note is that Xohm's coverage map has a radio button so the coverage area for mobile devices or for CPE in the home can be chosen. The coverage increases slightly when CPE ("modems") is chosen.