Sprint officials said they are looking to partner with vendors to offer database, network storage, electronic commerce, supply chain management and other applications. But at the same time, if we're not aggressively working the applications side, too, we'll lose momentum. Sprint also plans to add to the software the ability to manage non-ION sites, officials said. In addition, Sprint is testing low-speed wireless access to ION using its existing personal communications services spectrum at data rates of 14.4K bps, with hopes of increasing that to 384K bps, officials said. This quarter, Sprint will deliver ION Basic, a 1.5M-bps version of the service.
Sprint expects ION to be fully available nationally in the first half of next year.
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