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Sprint announces EV-DO expansion plans

March 30th, 2006 · Source · No Comments

Sprint Nextel today revealed its expansion plans for EV-DO (or Power Vision as their marketing team calls it). The network is expected to reach 190m people nationwide by the end of the year. Starting in Q1 2007 Sprint will begin the upgrade to EV-DO Revision A and hopes to reach 220m people with the upgraded network by Q3 2007.

EV-DO Revision A boosts speeds, especially on the uplink:

Revision 0 Revision A
Max download 2Mbps 3.1Mpbs
Avg download 400-700kbps 450-800kbps
Max upload 144kbps 1.8Mbps
Avg upload 70-144kbbs 300-400kbbs

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