Call and Internet at the same time ???

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Originally Posted by ShadowDrake

I really hope I'm missing something elementary here, though. I know they've got a lot more research into it than I do, but I see more advantages for LTE... except for WiMax is already on the ground running and LTE is a long ways out.

it's been a while since i've had any time to dig up and read any white papers on the subject, but I was last left with the impression that wimax is more of a mesh(able) network, so nodes can communicate directly instead of getting routed through the 'network'. meaning a business could have thier own 'tower' (think Airave) and the users could link directly thus greater bandwith 'in-house'
this would also translate into scale-ability since sprint is big on events. they always bring in portable towers for things like daytona500 or election conventions.

your other points are completely valid however.

what I really think is that sprint is trying to replace wifi with wimax, since we all know wifi-N isn't all it's cracked up to be.