Sprint Broadband Direct Goes Offline July 31 - Service you thought died long ago finally does...
Remember Sprint Broadband Direct Sprint is e-mailing the remaining customers of their line-of-sight-based wireless broadband service to inform them that they'll be terminating the service starting July 31 Made painfully irrelevant by the combination of Sprint EVDO and WiMAX, the 1.5Mbps service, which required a 13.5 diamond-shaped dish , saw mixed reviews over the years from our users In the e-mail to customers, it looks like they're blaming the FCC and a spectrum policy decision for the closure: As the result of a recent FCC action, Sprint will no longer have access to the spectrum used to operate our Sprint Broadband Direct Service in your area
Posted May 19, 2008
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webhiway:
Press ReleaseWebhiway Communications (www.webhiway.com) a wireless communications provider based in Tucson, AZ announced that they will be buying Sprint Wireless Broadband Direct equipment from former sprint wireless broadband subscribers.
Sprint Communications is informing their customers that they will be turning off their wireless broadband direct Internet service on July 31, 2008.
Webhiway will purchase the equipment for $20 or give customers a $50 credit on the installation of Webhiway wireless broadband service, providing they live in a Webhiway service area. Webhiway Communications operates high speed wireless networks in Arizona and Utah and is expanding its networks to include other market areas.
For more information visit: www.webhiway.com or call 520-829-4165
todd:
oh, interesting. i did think that that was turned off a long time ago. it was a weird business model for sprint. i wonder how this dovetails with sprint's odd dalliance with 802.16 (wimax)
