Sprint Nextel said yesterday it plans to aggressively expand the Sprint Power Vision network, which covers more than half of the U.S. population with mobile broadband data services.
By the end of the year, the company expects the wireless network to reach an estimated 190 million people nationwide and in Puerto Rico, making it the largest mobility network of its kind.
At the same time, Sprint said it will upgrade its EV-DO network so it will reach about 220 million people in the United States by the end of the third quarter of 2007.
Sprint will market EV-DO Revision A-compatible connection cards in the third quarter of 2006. With Revision A technology, peak download data rates increase to 3.1mbps, from 2mpbs, and peak upload data rates increase to 1.8mbps, from 144kbps. Average download speeds improve to 450-800kbps, from 400-700, and average uplink speeds become 300-400kpbs, rather than 70-144kpbs.
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