Sprint's 4G Xohm service to begin testing soon

[neodorian]

I just checked on the coverage map and I am good to go in Charles Village as well as where I work in east Baltimore. I had contacted the person in charge of the test and she said that there were hundreds of applicants so they have to sort through everything. They will likely be notifying people by email early next week. I could theoretically push adoption of this in my place of employment which would lead to a huge contract so I was trying to get them to let me test just for that reason but unfortunately the market research company doing this test isn't involved with that sort of thing. I would drop my month-old Verizon DSL in a second if I could get this as well. Ideally I could do some kind of bundle with my Sprint wireless as well as Xohm.

Edit: I'm surprised to see how many PPC Geeks are also Baltimorons like me

[bigdaddygear]

I called XOHM on 9/29/2008 at 5:00pm EST and asked if they had a 5GB CAP, bandwidth throttling, lower your speed like t mobile. AND HE SAID NO NO NO THEY DO NOT DO ANY OF THE ABOVE.

HOW AWESOME IS THAT O YEAH DA DA DA DA DA DA DA CAN’T CAP THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cutta-Boi]

Originally Posted by bigdaddygear

I called XOHM on 9/29/2008 at 5:00pm EST and asked if they had a 5GB CAP, bandwidth throttling, lower your speed like t mobile. AND HE SAID NO NO NO THEY DO NOT DO ANY OF THE ABOVE.

HOW AWESOME IS THAT O YEAH DA DA DA DA DA DA DA CAN’T CAP THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't really matter yet... unless you live in Baltimore.

[CozBoogie]

Threads merged.

late,
Coz

[nauticus25]

Originally Posted by neodorian

Edit: I'm surprised to see how many PPC Geeks are also Baltimorons like me

Welcome to Smalltimore, Hon.

I'm making it a point to wander over by DuClaw's during lunch the next couple of weeks. 2 Intel minivans with WiMax graphics, a Sprint minivan, and two of those tiny little Xohm carts were there. They thought ahead this time and brought a table so they wouldn't need to put all the laptops on the stone wall. They were just unloading stuff and I saw a hard case labeled "Xohm booth". I'm still bummed about the coverage vacuum in my neighborhood, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed anyways. Once they build out some more, I could see some good potential for our survey crews in the field for this.

[neodorian]

Originally Posted by bigdaddygear

I called XOHM on 9/29/2008 at 5:00pm EST and asked if they had a 5GB CAP, bandwidth throttling, lower your speed like t mobile. AND HE SAID NO NO NO THEY DO NOT DO ANY OF THE ABOVE.

HOW AWESOME IS THAT O YEAH DA DA DA DA DA DA DA CAN’T CAP THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, their reasoning behind the 5gb cap (which I still have yet to see enforced. I used my phone as my primary modem for a couple of months and easily did between 6 and 9 gb each) was that they wanted to keep the cellular network from overloading and to move power users toward the newer emerging tech of WiMax.

[piscesjoey]

Originally Posted by meccadon123

Where can the coverage maps be located? i live in Elkton (north eastern most town on the DE line). Will the service be offered/tested here? Zip=21921. Thanks.

Im in Elkton too, n it doesn't reach up here, but I can use a few of my family members addresses around Baltimore to sign up lol

[psiphi]

I'm just waiting on the DC area to go online... We are scheduled to do so by the end of the year...

[meccadon123]

Originally Posted by piscesjoey

Im in Elkton too, n it doesn't reach up here, but I can use a few of my family members addresses around Baltimore to sign up lol

Put me down with one and sign me up

2 people from Elkton on here. i thought i was the only 1 in town smart enough to come here. looks like there's 2 of us.

[piscesjoey]

Originally Posted by meccadon123

Put me down with one and sign me up

2 people from Elkton on here. i thought i was the only 1 in town smart enough to come here. looks like there's 2 of us.

Lol, I jus moved here a month ago, I was in Wlimington/New Castle for the past 5 years