Your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card
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This card allows you to do the following (subject to feature availability), without using a landline phone or network:
⬤Connect to the Internet, VPN, and corporate networks
⬤Send and receive email
Your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card fits into a Type II PC Card slot (available on most notebook PCs).
CDMA Networks
The Sprint Mobile Broadband Card operates over a type of wireless network called CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access).
To use the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card, you need an account that gives you access to the CDMA network. Some features described in this manual may not be available with your account. For details of the services and accounts available, contact Sprint (page 27).
There are CDMA networks that operate in the frequency bands supported by the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card throughout North America and parts of Latin America, Asia, and New Zealand. However, each service provider operates a network that covers a limited geographical area within the overall CDMA coverage area.
The fee for service is usually higher when you are roaming (connecting to a network other than Sprint).
Sprint has “roaming” agreements with other service providers, so that you can get service outside of the coverage area of the Sprint PCS Vision® network. For example, assuming you live in Seattle and travel frequently to Vancouver, you can obtain an account with a service provider in Seattle that has a roaming agreement with a service provider in Vancouver. You would then have local service in Seattle, and roaming service in Vancouver. (There may be additional charges for roaming service.)
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