Comments on: With WiMax, Sprint cuts the cord in Baltimore

Once the locale of HBO's The Wire, Baltimore now hosts the flagship network for a new "unwired" broadband initiative.

[firestormcs]

sounds crazy fast... it'd be nice to go down to the park and surf the web.

[sanenazok]

A year late...this was supposed to be in Chicago about a year ago...we're still waiting. Too bad DSL is cheaper now and faster too. Oh well I had Sprint fixed point wireless when it first came out but this is kinda pointless.

[Rawnchie14]

DSL? We're talking mobile internet connection, anywhere in the city. Not tied down to a DSL receiver.

[scottbuster]

XOHM is fully operational in Chicago 4ginfo.com has speed tests posted and directions for signing up!

[inqwired]

XOHM negates the need to jump from hotspot to hotspot in a metro area and brings broadband speed whereever you go in the city. It gives you the speed you expect at home and in the office- and for many, the pay as you go plan solves the nagging issue of contracts.

[Mr. Dee]

I live in Jamaica and this has been promised by Digicel since 2005 and so far, not even the business customers are near getting anything. Good luck for people like me who live in the rural areas. The technology sounds good, but is it even feasible? Thats the question.

[CmdrRickHunter]

There's this funny concept that people seem to keep thinking is realistic. They seem to think that since "wireless will catch up to wired speed in 3 years," wired will hold still and let them catch up, even though the speeds are now sufficent that any improvements to wireless directly apply to wired connections. A wireless connection will always be identical to a shared wired connection (such as cable) except with drastically lower signal to noise ratios.

[Rawnchie14]

I guess they mean current wired speeds. You're right that wired speeds will always dictate the advances in wireless speeds, wires will always be faster.

[vandenbroek]

One thing that makes WiMAX so very exciting is that it has the potential to give traditional radio a real run for its money. It could also utterly destroy satellite radio. Now that royalty matters seem to be spilling in the direction of Internet radio, the concept of Internet everywhere make matters a lot more interesting. Imagine being able to pull content from tens-of-thousands of web-based audio stations in your car! WiMAX holds the potential to game change traditional media as we know it. And when you consider the cost-ratio of putting a station on-the-air in a terrestrial or extra-terrestrial environment and doing the same for an Internet station ... bye-bye Clear Channel.

[Faysal21]

I really like this WiMAX concept from Sprint,and i'm happy that Baltimore (my hometown) is first to be covered by Xohm.I'd like to be in the Downtown area and surfing the web doing all kinds of stuff...

[doright1]

XOHM Kiosk now at Arundel Mill Mall in Baltimore.. Located in Food Court.. Stop by or call 410-540-9060