[rorytmeadows]

Also, read some of the comments from that article you posted...pretty funny...

"I live in Portland, OR. Clearwire choose to roll out WiMax here about 3 months ago. Awful. Simply Awful. I work in a UPS store and all their returns are handled through UPS. We see approximately 5 to 10 people returning and cancelling every week. There technical support isn't very technical and their sales people are lying through their teeth. The tech support guys told one customer to climb on his roof with his laptop to see if he get signal. In a city that has rain so many days out of the year what good is it going to do him if he has to be on his roof to use it.

It might be a smarter decision to adopt WindowsME beta as your primary operating system."

"Both WiMax and LTE can use either TDD or FDD however. But, Clearwire's claim that it is just a software change to upgrade from WiMax to LTE is pure marketing BS. They must be real nervous. There wouldn't be a computer, plug, socket, wire or antenna left from Wimax after they switched out to LTE.

I bet that when the CEO asked the CTO if such a change was possible, the CTO knew in his gut he had to answer "yes" or be fired.

Sure they can change the software - but the software runs on different hardware, so they will have to change the hardware too, and FDD hardware uses different antennas and cell plans, not to mention that all those subscribers who bought WiMax terminals will suddenly find they have gone the way of DAMPS and the Tandy Color Computer, and they will have to switch to LTE terminals."

"I hope the CEO means that software upgrade is from UMTS to LTE and not WiMax to LTE. As far as i know WiMax to LTE s/w upgrade is not a "overnightly" affair."