Last week a tipster alerted us to the fact that Sprint would be unveiling their pricing and packages for their Xohm mobile WiMax service this Friday on the company's website, with a real Baltimore "launch" October 6. It now appears those fireworks will be two days later. According to invitations being sent out to reporters and analysts, on October 8, Sprint will present their new service at a media event at Bond Street Wharf Park in Baltimore. The event will feature presentations by company CFO Barry West, CEO Dan Hesse and Intel exec Sean Maloney.

Meanwhile, Sprint continues to insist that they'll meet their September launch date. It's not clear if they'll try to technically keep their promise by simply unveiling pricing this week, or whether they really will begin taking orders sometime in this month's remaining seven days. The Baltimore network is currently live -- it's simply not accepting commercial customers -- so it may be a matter of semantics.

Xohm speeds should be somewhere around 2-4Mbps, though execs say they've seen speeds in excess of 11Mbps when closer to towers. Sprint has repeatedly stated that they will be offering no-contract plans, an open network able to accept any mobile WiMax-capable device, with price points lower than $50.