Sprint turns Baltimore into a giant wireless hot spot.
What if your laptop could wirelessly connect to the Internet as easily as your phone connects to the cellular network--with broadband data rates to boot?
That's the promise of a technology called WiMax, and in September, in the greater Baltimore area, Sprint is launching its first WiMax network. Several smaller companies offer regional WiMax service in the U.S., but Sprint has the national reach to take the technology into the mainstream.
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