It's completely seamless. They put you on a special king of 3g called eHRPD which locks in an IP address, and preserves it when you switch towers or 3G to LTE.
(The Wimax to 3g handoff doesn't work because it's Clearwire-to-Sprint. I don't think it's an inherent problem with Wimax technology.)
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