Sprint and Samsung intro new XOHM PR, no actual service in sight
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted May 15th 2008 7:32PM
posted May 15th 2008 7:32PM
In a press release today, Sprint and Samsung "declared" that mobile WiMAX technology is "now ready for commercial service." Sounds exciting right? Well, it's kind of like saying that a car is "ready to drive" -- you still can't do much without the keys and a road. Since Sprint has seen recent delays, litigation, and various other forms of badness, this does kind of come off as an empty PR move. Nevertheless, they want to let everyone know that XOHM has "met Sprint's rigorous commercial acceptance criteria including overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay." Honestly, we hope it gets off the ground soon -- we've got a pile of WiMAX N810's here we need to fire up.
LAAAmmmmee!
Damnit, you can start making noise when I can actually buy it, not before!!
So if the merger with Clearwire is going to rename XOHM as Clearwire, then why are they marketing it as XOHM?
I think Xohm is going to be Sprint's branded service for WiMax. Clearwire is their joint venture that will serve as the wholesaler to many different entities such as Comcast, Time Warner and Cablevision. Each will have their own branded service to market to their respective customers.
Huh???
Chicken Little said "The sky is falling, the sky is falling." Or was that Ducky Lucky?
This is all story time until this merger is signed, sealed and delivered. I do not think it would be in Sprint or Clearwire's best interest to go ahead with much of anything until everything passes muster with the gubment and the industry...and that is all going to happen in the fourth quarter according to what I am reading.
This bulletin had no substance...kind of like my post here.
Wow!! The bias is clear, anything about Sprint gets scrutinize by Engadget, any about Apple/ATT Engadget ends-up with brown stuff on their nose.
I think it depends on the person writing the story.. Its not the same guy every time... That would be a 24/7 job of d00m!
Thank you for that unneeded comment. It's their blog, not yours.
@Chuck
You're right, being partial doesn't help.
I have a hard time hating Sprint. Sure their low level customer service is terrible, but once you get past the minions, you can usually find somebody whos willing to do anything to keep you as a customer, including giving you 4 lines with unlimited everything, with 1500 minutes we don't use, 2 free centros, and two free motorola q9's for 100 bucks a month.
They aren't very smart, and maybe being a customer for 15 years has something to do with it, but I'll continue to support them as long as I can keep squeezing them for free and cheap shit.
That's the thing, it's the employee not the Company, I recently learned that Sprints churn is starting to level off.