sprint phone wimax upgrade to lte

[anon62607]

I remember Clearwire saying (I believe it was in their 2Q conference call) that they were planning to only deploy LTE in the 20MHz channels. They would sell WiMax as deployed as an entry 4G product and LTE as an upgrade product.

This kind of torqued me because it will just further the misconceptions that LTE is faster and better than WiMax.

With 150 MHz of spectrum available, Clearwire should have petitioned the FCC in the very beginning for 20MHz channels. It would have skunked Verizon's LTE before it even started.

The WiMax vs. LTE environment would be very different today. Its kind of sad how the whole thing has been bungled by Clearwire and Sprint.

LTE and WiMax are so close in terms of technology that one doesn't really seem all that better than the other, so long as they have the same spectrum to work with.

I'd understood that Clear wanted to deploy LTE in 20+20 MHz FDD, or at least were experimenting with that, which would be quite a bit of bandwidth if they would get rid of the home internet users.

 

[anon62607]

LTE and WiMax are so close in terms of technology that one doesn't really seem all that better than the other, so long as they have the same spectrum to work with.

I'd understood that Clear wanted to deploy LTE in 20+20 MHz FDD, or at least were experimenting with that, which would be quite a bit of bandwidth if they would get rid of the home internet users.

Check that, band 41 LTE is defined for TDD. So it'd be a single 20 MHz TDD channel, which should still in the general case be faster than Verizon's LTE at half cell radius in an urban environment given the same load on each network.

 

[eve6er69]

From what I am hearing it is an easy swap of software in the phone to support lte but most likely it won't be using it to it's full potential. Sprint is going to still be using that spectrum for other things. Look up project leapfrog and you'll see what their plans are with the wimax frequencies.

 

[anon62607]

From what I am hearing it is an easy swap of software in the phone to support lte but most likely it won't be using it to it's full potential. Sprint is going to still be using that spectrum for other things. Look up project leapfrog and you'll see what their plans are with the wimax frequencies.

No, it won't be just a software update.

 

[eve6er69]

Yeah o don't know where I read that but someone was saying it would be a software update but we all know how rumors get started. Lol


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