Enterprise customers are seeing new business mobility benefits as Sprint continues an aggressive build-out of its Power Vision high-speed network. Launched in July, the Power Vision EV-DO (evolution, data optimized) wireless service has expanded to more than 141 major markets and more than 250 airports nationwide, and will be accessible on various devices to about 150 million people in over 220 major markets by early 2006.

Sprint PPC-6700 View Specs

Various devices provide users faster speeds to download e-mails and leverage mobile applications when in Power Vision (EV-DO) coverage areas, such as the Sprint PPC- 6700, the only Windows Mobile 5.0 smart phone on the market) and laptop connection cards from Novatel Wireless and Sierra Wireless. A third card manufactured by UTStarcom, the Sprint PCS connection card (PC-5740), will become available later this month. Flexible pricing plans start at $39.99 per month or $59.99 monthly for unlimited access (with a voice subscription) coupled with a free connection card offer until Dec. 31, 2005.

The Sprint Power Vision Network is based on state-of-the-art EV-DO CDMA technology. Users with EV-DO capable devices will be able to access wireless data at average download speeds of 400-700 kbps and a peak rate of up to 2 Mbps. EV-DO is up to 10 times faster than the current Sprint Nationwide PCS network.

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