Monday, Sprint Nextel Corporation is scheduled to launch their new wireless network in Baltimore, offering customers a WiMax version that both provides wireless access to the Web to home users and enables the ones who work on laptops and have special modems to get on the Internet from wherever they may be.

WiMax Xohm is said to offer download speeds ranging from 2M bps to 4M bps, at a price estimated at about $30 a month for mobile users. In addition, the company’s cost-plans include a one-day pass ($10), a home Internet option for $25 a month and a "Pick 2 for Life" introductory offer that, for $50 a month, allows access to two devices on the network. Moreover, a long-term contract is not neccesary for the service.

As for the required modems, Sprint has announced that they would be available both through the Xohm Web site and in local independent stores. The two models, the Samsung Express and the Zyxel are priced at $59.99 and $79.99, respectively.

Sprint Nextel has also informed about their plans to release a new modem model from ZTE later on during this year and also to comercialize a dual-mode wireless modem that could connect to the WiMax network and their 3G mobile phone one, as well. Furthermore, the company added that Intel Centrino 2 WiMAX notebook Personal Computers and the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition are to be made available later in 2008.

Sprint is said to be in the procees of merging their WiMax unit with Clearwire Corporation, a Kirkland-headquartered wireless broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP), the deal being aimed at building a national network for a 4G (fourth-generation) wireless service.