Despite the recent disasters that have befallen the company, Sprint Nextel still reckons it’s on track for a commercial launch of WiMAX next year. It’s in the process of soft launching the network in three markets right now, with several hundred employees using data cards to access the wireless broadband network.

But most of the noise coming out of Sprint right now seems to be geared towards easing the concerns of those companies that have got involved in the Xohm ecosystem. And the shareholders of course.

I wonder if Sprint’s come so far down the line now that it has to run with the WiMAX ball, or whether its all bluster. The reader commenting below makes an interesting point…