What should a customer look for when choosing a mobile broadband provider?
OV. First, you want to make sure you are getting true broadband download speeds of 400-700kbps with a peak of 2Mbps. Today, you can only get those speeds nationwide with CDMA technology. Coverage is also very important. Although Sprint has the largest mobile broadband network in the nation, covering over 152 million people – half the US – we still encourage our customers to get a card or device and test it in the areas where they think they will use it the most. We rarely see cards returned, but we do have a return policy that gives customers a few weeks, to test their service and coverage and return their device and cancel their service if it doesn’t meet their needs. They just pay for the service that they used. Security has historically been a concern for our customers as well. Sprint’s PCS network is an inherently secure, spread spectrum CDMA technology with end-to-end level of authentication and encryption. Traffic goes through multiple stages of encoding and encryption – as well
