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Originally Posted by drksilenc
articles me nothing until i see lte in the us. which wont be till later this year when sprint alrdy has wimax in place and do u know why wimax more than likley will win this cause of the simple fact that sprint owns the spectrum and in the wireless game spectrum is king.
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You're right articles mean nothing, however, I have to side with p-slim. It's common knowledge that sprint got slammed for going wimax whereas the rest of the big providers plan to head down the LTE path (ATT, Verizon, TMobile). In fact, if you research, Europe is going to be LTE, they've already set aside the spectrum, and it's the proper path to head towards given that it's the upgrade path for GSM.
Majority of the world is GSM, and that majority will most likely head down the LTE path because that's the upgrade path for GSM. This is why UMS technology for the CDMA path was mostly discontinued and abandoned.
I personally think the only reason Sprint went with WiMAX was to try to gain an edge in the 4G race, knowing that LTE will take a couple more years to deploy. Think about it, they're already behind Verizon and ATT. Why spend so much money going from CDMA to LTE when they can use WiMAX and try to catch up? They need to get an edge somewhere before they get crushed. Ultimately, WiMAX will replace wifi, but Cell Companies will run their networks on LTE. That's my opinion, anyways. That being said, I'm sticking with sprint in the short term, because that's cheaper for me as a consumer, and I still get the added benefit of "3G/4G" until the next contract is up 2-3 years from now.