Sprint 4G finally active in Dallas and NC

Sprint began the week by bringing its 4G WiMAX service into action for several key areas promised earlier. The Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth areas as well as several North Carolina cities, including Cary, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, High Point, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, all now have access to the wide-area wireless. The carrier still promises downstream speeds of about 3Mbps to 6Mbps in real situations, all of which allow VoIP, video and other tasks normally off-limits to 3G.

Service primarily hinges on a $70 monthly plan that offers unlimited 4G and 5GB of 3G transfers, but visitors to a particular area can pay $10 for a day pass with unlimited 4G during the period. Sprint's dual-mode 4G/3G U300 USB modem is the primary device for the network, but some notebooks and other devices also connect to Sprint's WiMAX.

By Electronista Staff