By JASON GERTZEN and DAVID HAYES
The Kansas City Star
Picture it.
You’re on Interstate 70 headed for Denver and the kids are in the back seat with a laptop, watching a movie streaming in from Netflix or Movielink.
Send it.
You’re at your daughter’s first-grade play with the ubiquitous video camera. But instead of just taping the show, you’re beaming a live broadcast to your parents’ television set in Florida.
Browse it.
You’re sitting across the desk from the car salesman, using your new Samsung Ultra Mobile computer to hit Edmunds.com and Consumer Reports.com to find the dealer’s invoice price for a new Chevrolet Malibu.
It may sound a little like the imaginings of Arthur C. Clarke or H.G. Wells. But for Sprint Nextel, it’s a multibillion-dollar manuscript that almost certainly will determine the future of the area’s largest corporate employer.
Sprint Nextel is betting up to $5 billion that it can build a whole new kind of business delivering high-speed wireless Internet access to homes, businesses and even vehicles.
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