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Originally Posted by jbearamus
the phone itself wouldn't necessarily need a more powerful antenna however, there would need to be more cell sites to effectively cover the area because as you mentioned, the higher the frequency the harder it is for it to get through buildings, which requires the tower to be closer or else you lose signal strength so 2.5 ghz will need more towers to cover the same area that a 700mhz does, it has nothing to do with wimax vs lte its a matter of which spectrum is the best set to use
outside of california the only carrier that sticks with 14 days is tmobile, sprint att and vzw all have 30 days
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the phone itself would need a completely different physical antenna. A software upgrade on the device from wimax to lte wouldn't be possible. if the radio built into the evo was a multiple band wimax/lte radio then it would be possible, but the radio put into Evo will only support wimax.
oh ok, that must not apply to cell phones.