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Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 14 November 2011 I would love for the Samsung Galaxy S3 to have LTE and this design. Sprint will surely call it the "Samsung Galaxy SIII Epic 4G Touch LTE Screen" or something like that so they can set the world record for longest name of a cell phone. I can't wait to find out what kind of wordplay the HTC LTE handset comes up with since Evo is part of LTE. HTC LTEvo or something...

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 22 January 2012 I look forward to hearing your input on some of the advanced issues that come up in the group.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 28 January 2012 Good point, Sprint/Clearwire would both be sitting high on the hog if everyone wouldn't have shunned Wimax. Clear could have continued their buildout with Wimax and would have attracted a lot of additional customers. Too bad it didn't work out.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 28 January 2012 It seems everyone says that Sprint made a huge blunder by going with Wimax. If they would have flip flopped for another year, they could have just built a LTE network and had happy customers that don't feel alienated with their Wimax phones. My thoughts are: Sprint only contracted the Wimax network from clearwire instead of making any changes to their network equipment. Sprint got to market the first 4G network. Wimax phones will be obselete anyway by the time clearwire turns off the Wimax network. Sprint's customers will complain about anything. Sprint seems to have some of the most entitled customers. I always see posts like "I've been a Sprint customer for 12 years and they owe me (fill in the blank)" I am not even excluded from this as I have been guilty of expecting preferential treatment for being 10+ years with Sprint. Sprint has propagated this themselves with their premiere program and cancelation of it. So let me have it, I may be wrong, but it seems the only misstep by sprint was waiting so long to pull the trigger on network vision, if they would have started when Verizon started with LTE, they would be in a much better position, but nobody knew that Wimax would fall so far. They are doing a good job of being aggressive with NV and might make up some of the time wasted.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 12 January 2012 I tried to hold out for LTE, but I caved and bought the Epic 4G Touch... I think Sprint would be shooting themselves in the foot releasing any more WiMax phones. They already said they would be phasing WiMax out in 2013, so unless you want your customers screaming for an early upgrade to get an LTE phone when Wimax goes dark, you should at least stop releasing new phones with WiMax. Edit: the WiMax agreement with Clearwire was extended through 2015

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 15 January 2012 Nice work! The devs should be able to support 4G with their rooms now.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 17 January 2011 I haven't been able to get anything on my phone for WiMax. I think the wife is full of it...

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 15 January 2011 I figured I would see LTE before WiMax too. She may have just seen the 4G icon as it was trying to connect and thought it was connected...

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 14 January 2011 I have yet to verify this, and I am very skeptical that it is true. But my wife claimed that she was getting 4G WiMax at her work on the outskirts of St. Cloud. I tried to pick it up in several spots, including her work, and couldn't connect to anything. I think she was mistaken, but I'm hoping... I know what grumpy old men would say about it... wish in this hand and crap in the other and see which gets filled first.