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On October 8, 2008, Sprint Nextel launched WiMAX in Baltimore and showed off several new laptops that will have embedded WiMAX chips. They announced that Sprint will be offering dual-mode 3G/4G products by the end of the year. Baltimore was the first city to get Xohm, but it was launched soon after in more cities, such as Chicago and Philadelphia.
Sprint Corporation, in 2005, acquired Nextel and changed its name to Sprint Nextel Corporation. The company spun off its local wireline assets into a separate company in 2006 as Embarq Corporation. Sprint Missouri then became Embarq Missouri, Inc. Embarq was acquired by CenturyTel in 2009, which in 2010 changed its name to CenturyLink.
Nextel's iDEN network offered a then unique push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature in addition to direct-dialed voice calls. Nextel was one of the first providers in the United States to offer a national digital cellular coverage footprint. Prior to merging with Sprint Corporation in 2005, Nextel Communications, Inc. was a publicly traded company.
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The third largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier wants to enhance voice quality and data speeds and. Sprint Nextel (S) announced today a plan to upgrade its network over the next three to five years ...
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XOHM launched officially on September 29, 2008, in Baltimore and was deployed in other markets in 2009, 2010 and 2011 as Sprint 4G. XOHM was merged with Clearwire . Sprint owns 54% of the firm, with ex-Clearwire shareholders owning 24%, and a consortium of Comcast , Time Warner , Intel , Google , and Bright House owning 22%.
In 1993, Sprint merged with Centel, [8] which allowed Sprint to provide local service in a total of 18 states and put them back in the wireless business. In late 1994 and early 1995, Sprint via Sprint Spectrum (a joint venture between Sprint and several cable companies) acquired near nationwide PCS spectrum.