Sprint Mobile Broadband coverage is great for road warriors

“With Sprint mobile broadband coverage, you can harness the power of the nation’s largest mobile broadband network. Reaching more than 230 million people (including roaming areas), the service is available in 218 markets major metropolitans and 1,002 coast-to-coast airports”

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You + Sprint + Car = Bonnie & Clyde.

Sprint Mobile Broadband will be with you faithfully as you travel the interstates of the starry banner. Sprint’s coverage area has a pretty bad game. For a while they have been campaigning to be the largest mobile broadband network.

Interestingly, those commercials have quietly disappeared since Verizon’s aggressively upgraded infrastructure merged with Alltel. However, mobile broadband coverage is one of the few good things Sprint has going for it. It almost goes without saying that if a carrier can cover the interstates, it also has major cities and airports under control.

For example, I personally tested the network on I-10 from New Orleans to Jacksonville. After 546 miles of rubber finding the road, I kid you not. It’s the real deal. Combine that with recent reports of Sprint beating Verizon and AT&T for speed in the “Ultimate Test of Coast-to-Coast 3G Data” and you have some fierce competition.

While having state-to-state service is nice, how does Sprint’s coverage area fare in concrete jungles? Fairly good. When they decided to make their entire network EVDO Revision A, it was money well spent on infrastructure. The only places that may be missing are very rural and high mountain areas (which sometimes coincide).

While I could go on poetically about Sprint’s Bittorrent download speeds rivaling DSL companies in major cities, the only way to really know if this is for you is to check Sprint coverage at your street level and regular destinations.