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div class="rxbodyfield"p class="ArticleBody" page="1"Wireless users in Baltimore are standing politely in line to sign up for just launched a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/29/Sprint_launches_Xohm_WiMax_network_in_Baltimore-IDGNS_1.html" class="regularArticleU"Sprint WiMax service, called Xohm/a, pronounced "zome," at slightly better than the expected rate, according to Sprint executives./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"However, unauthorized users in Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia are apparently cutting the line./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"According to a href="http://www.mp3car.com/index.php/95-Xohms-Baltimore-Wimax-hardware-working-in-Chicago-Boston-Dallas-Philadelphia-Washington-DC-Nor.html" target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"published reports on the Web/a, those who can't wait to try out Sprint's high-performance wireless technology (4Mbps downlink and 2Mbps up) in Baltimore -- the only place where the service is officially launched -- have found a work-around: Simply registering with a Baltimore zip code and getting themselves a WiMax card./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia are all places targeted by Sprint for a WiMax rollout, but the network is not complete, and users may find varying levels of service in these cities./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"But that hasn't stopped the diehards./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"One blogger tells his fellow broadband geeks to "UPS air your Baltimore WiMax hardware for your fix of Wimax geekery."/pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"This blogger is going so far as to fly to Boston with his Baltimore hardware to try it out./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"If this is any indication of pent-up demand and/or need for broadband wireless capabilities, Sprint may be in for a subscriber bonanza because the fact is, most analysts agree that Sprint's only technology competition, a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/15/GSM-group-backs-LTE-for-mobile-broadband_1.html" class="regularArticleU"LTE/a, will not be available until 2010, and then from a limited number of providers./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1""LTE is at the stage where the spec is just getting done and test equipment is being made. More aggressive wireless carriers will deploy LTE in 2010; the others will wait to 2012," said Phil Solis, principal mobile analyst with ABI Research./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed broadband geek ended his blog with this assurance for those who were breathlessly waiting more news:/pp class="ArticleBody" page="1""When we get there [Boston], I will let you know how it works at the airport and surrounding suburbs."/p/div View the full article