Sprint Nextel will invest $7 billion during 2007 in network upgrades, the company announced Tuesday.
The company is upgrading most of its Mobile Broadband Network this year so it runs at higher and more efficient speeds.
The company also is enhancing its wireline network; its investment will total $1.4 billion for 2006 and 2007.
The upgrades also will involve adding additional cell tower cites to its national network.
“Our network is at our all-time best when it comes to blocked and dropped calls,” Sprint spokeswoman Jackie Bostick said Tuesday.
Sprint maintained Tuesday that construction of its WiMax network, which D.C. will be the first market to receive, is proceeding on schedule. D.C. will receive the service late this year, and the company plans to reach 100 million users by the end of 2008. Sprint Nextel also announced a collaboration with NTT Communications, a Tokyo-based telecommunications firm, Monday. The companies will merge their networks in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, to give additional coverage to users. NTT and Sprint connected their networks in the United States in 2005, according to a news release.
