Sprint 4g: LTE?
 

Hello,
I know there has been threads on whether Sprint will go to LTE over Wimax and what that would bring.

However, I saw this video on Clearwire's website when I was googling when Phoenix would get 4g (Probably never).

Just thought it was interesting that Clearwire is running LTE tests and posted this video on their website, possibly to attract some carriers or perhaps showing subtle signs that Sprint might stick with them and use wimax & lte for 4g coverage...

I'm not too technological savvy but hopefully somebody finds this as interesting as I did...

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Re: Sprint 4g: LTE?
 

That is awesome. I cant wait until they capitalize on LTE.Thanks for posting

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I can't wait also i'm glad I switched from T-mobile to Sprint. TAKE THAT VERIZON haha I keed

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The thing that I hate the most is that clear wire is in phoenix and there is only 4g in like a few blocks in north phoenix....and the stupid sprint customer reps said we would have it last august....well they didn't say the whole city would have it so I guess it's my fault for being a sucker

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Same here where I live. They said coming soon! I got an email saying there was 4g in my town. They made a point to send an email about it. There is a golf course on the edge of town against the state line. The 4g is in the middle of a fairway! LOL PERFECT!

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This would suck for us EVO [4G/3D/Shift]/Epic users, since our phones don't come with radios to support LTE. If they decide to swap over, I wonder how long we have before they shut down WiMax and change it up to purely LTE.

Either way for those of us who are poor and can't afford to upgrade so often, this will suck for us. (Before anyone complains not to get a phone if you can't afford it, I'm on a family plan and still in college, so it's perfectly reasonable.)

R u sure about the EVO's not having LTE radio's? I heard that we're koo, b/c they r LTE compatible! ;-)

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first of all sprint is sticking with clearwire all the way in..they have no choice..Clearwire has the 2.5ghz spectrum that they need to deploy it a whopping 150mhz on it..with that much spectrum they can run LTE/Wimax and the kitchen sink all at the same time...

As for decommissioning of wimax..well they may plan to keep wimax for residential gateways/rent it or if they plan to decommission it that will take them like 4 years..thats how long its taking them to decommission 800mhz spectrum...but as I said they got enough spectrum to do anything they want...

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I don't think it has the radio as far as I know. The two technologies use opposite parts of the frequency spectrum, that's why WiMAX is said to have crappy wall penetration.

Easiest way to put it is, LTE uses SIM cards, and we don't have a SIM card slot, so I don't think we have the radio. So no LTE for us Wimax phone users.

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Sprint is not going FD-LTE, ts going TD-LTE which is same spectrum as wimax...

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I personally believe that they'll keep wimax around even when they do switch over to LTE as you'll have people that will still have phones that will use wimax, they are not going to just stop wimax it will be phased out I believe, don't worry you have a long time before all this will happen.

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here is the latest from Sprint and LTE agreement..

http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/17/sprint...-lightsquared/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...th-sprint.html

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What he said.

thanks for posting. I think this is good news. Now hurry up Sprint!

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well its good news if light-squared lives trough the "interference with GPS thing"..if light-squared can't do that or takes too long to get it resolved it can end disastrous for sprint :/

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agreed. Sprint always seems to live on the edge of disaster :)

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I read that the Galaxy 2 (Within) may have both Wimax and LTE radios. IF so, and they can roll that phone out before the 30 days is up for the Evo 3D, then I will be switching to Samsung!

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Lte is what will keep me from upgrading to the evo3d.

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I had a chance to play with my first Verizon Thunderbolt a few days ago here in Tampa FL. I personally have never gotten over 10 MBS Download and 1 MBS Upload with my Evo 4G. The Thunderbolt using the same exact test server, which in my opinion I use Speak Easy Speed Test which has always been the most accurate/reliable for me got a Whopping 19.88 MBS Download speed and 2.76 MBS Upload. So I do hope $print makes the wise decision of switching from Wimax to LTE. Only thing that sucks for me is obviously I'll have to pay for the upgrade but lord have mercy will it be worth it.

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To clarify..that is not an indication of speed of LTE vs wimax...wimax is capable of faster speed..it more has to do with how sprint implements wimax, how much spectrum sprint uses, that sprint deploy in 2.5ghz band and verizon in 700mhz, how congested the networks 4g is...and the fact that sprint caps you at 10mbps download.

Also things can have effect depending on the bandwidth provider for the tower and the test server.

For one I would like sprint to at least implement the 40% version of wimax-enchanced :/