Xohm
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Xohm is the brand name Sprint Nextel Corporation is using to promote its WiMAX services, labelled by Sprint Nextel as 4G. Sprint is the first service provider in the United States, with its partner Clearwire, to announce building a mobile WiMAX network. The Xohm WiMAX mobile Internet initiative earned the Best of WiMAX World 2007 Award for Industry Innovation.[1]
Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. served as initial test markets [2], with Boston, Philadelphia, and Dallas to follow [3] before nationwide rollout; however Sprint announced delays of the soft launch at the 2008 CTIA.[4] Xohm launched officially on September 29, 2008 in Baltimore and will be deploying in other markets in the near future.
Xohm is to be merged with Clearwire. Sprint will own 51% of the firm, with ex-Clearwire shareholders owning 27%, and a consortium of Comcast, Time Warner, Intel, Google, and Bright House owning the balance. The new firm will be named Clearwire.
On December 1, 2008, Clearwire announced that XOHM will be phased out in 2009. XOHM will be replaced by the joint-Sprint/Clearwire brand, Clear.[5]
Samsung Brand XOHM is no longer valid for any WiMAX solutions. Now it's all named CLEAR.
A 500 million dollar WiMax project funded by taxpayers in New York City leases a 2.5 Gig band for municipal applications. The NY DoiTT has many former members of Nextel that are implementing this solution to improve municipal resource applications. The system has great prospects for commercial applications with Clearwire Xohm which is also run on a 2.5 gig platform.
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