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> are they betting everything on 4G becoming big in the next few years? I'm not sure that's much of a bet as it is inevitable. Sprint already has a phone on th
by detst 16y ago
> are they betting everything on 4G becoming big in the next few years?
I'm not sure that's much of a bet as it is inevitable. Sprint already has a phone on the market, Verizon will have a large deployment later this year and AT&T plans to deploy next year. That's just the US; I think there's already a small deployment of LTE somewhere in Europe.
- yurylifshits 16y agoRussian company Yota (currently a WiMax provider) has announced big plans and full switch to LTE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yota http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yota
- signa11 16y ago> That's just the US; I think there's already a small deployment of LTE somewhere in Europe. yes, lot's of places e.g. telenor (norway), vodafone (germany, maybe uk), magtel, boygues (france), d2 (germany) etc. etc.
- masklinn 16y ago> Sprint already has a phone on the market Sprint and the Evo 4G are using WiMax though, not LTE, I believe. And though there is no 4G standard yet (LTE is 3.9G, the candidate for 4G is LTE-Advanced) WiMax definitely isn't it.
- detst 16y agoRight, I didn't say the Evo is LTE. You might get an argument from Sprint about WiMAX not being 4G (even if it won't be the standard) but the point I was making is that the move to 4G is already underway and deployments around the world inevitable.