Author_Institution :
Vice President, Wimax Technology Development and Access Technologies, Sprint Nextel, USA
Abstract :
There are two major technology and social trends significantly changing peoples\´ lives: Wireless and the internet. Leveraging these two trends, WiMAX creates a new utility enabling new services development and new Internet business model. Sprint Nextel has completed a through technology comparison and business case study, and selected WiMAX as the technology to make the "Internet everywhere" vision reality. Our goal is to reach 100 million POPs coverage by end of 2008, and we intend to expand Mobile WiMAX network coverage thereafter.