US operator Sprint has updated the financial community on its plans to accelerate deployment of Network Vision and its plans to rollout LTE on its licensed spectrum. Network Vision is Sprint's plan to consolidate multiple network technologies into one network with the goal of enhancing network coverage, call quality and data speeds for customers across the US. Sprint reviewed progress to date in deploying Network Vision, including the rollout and testing and trialling of multimode technology, the launch of Sprint Direct Connect on the CDMA network and the devices launching in the fourth quarter. The company is targeting completion of Network Vision deployment by the end of 2013 two years sooner than originally scheduled. Sprint plans to launch LTE on its 1900MHz spectrum by midyear 2012 and complete the network build-out by the end of 2013. Sprint will launch CDMA-LTE devices by mid-2012, with approximately fifteen devices coming throughout the year including handsets, tablets and data cards. CDMA-Wimax LTE devices HTC EVO 4G, Samsung Epic 4G Touch and Nexus S 4G, will continue to be sold throughout 2012. Sprint has launched spectrum-hosting business. The spectrum-hosting business capitalises on Sprint's Network Vision platform and uses its open technology architecture.
