One user who pays $45.00 a month now for 1.5Mbps service, tells me that despite the added mobility, he's not thrilled about being nudged toward EVDO for $59.95. Not too mention that EVDO cards are not meant to used as a Business connection where you can network computers to or run credit cards through….But Sprint forgot to o mention this to it's "business" broadband direct customers, untill after the reccomendation and sale…then they sent out a boiler plate letter apologizing that the EVDO card is meant for residential use and not meant to have multiple users networked on the same connection for business type use…..Duhhhh!

 

Many users have had SBBD (and the same IP address) since as early as 2000. But the service, which blocked ICMP (pinging) and suffered from high-latency, was more than ready to be put out to pasture in the face of mobile WiMax.

Given limited Sprint deployment and promotion, I had almost forgotten that the service still existed. Sprint stopped offering the SBBD to new customers back in 2001 during a rough patch, then started taking new subscribers again in 2005.