Jun 21 2005
Sprint finds use for EVDO
This is usually the kind of crap I dish out on my other blog, but this is an NFL story, so I feel obligated to put it here.
Sprint is working out a $200 million deal with the NFL that would allow them to serve up live game information and video highlights of games on mobile phones.
You’re now wondering how in the world Sprint could deliver video to a cell phone. Well, Sprint is rolling out a new wireless technology called EVDO, which allows you to download data at near-broadband speeds — 300-500 Kbps — wherever you can get mobile phone signal. Verizon uses the same technology their VCast video service, so Sprint’s NFL highlight package should be similar to that.
Here is Sprint’s rollout schedule for EVDO.
On top of that, ESPN Mobile leases Sprint’s network, and it plans to broadcast Monday Night Football games on EVDO-capable mobile phones starting in 2006. Of course, whether any battery pack will actually last long enough to let you watch a 3-hour football game on your phone remains to be seen…
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