Easy does it there big fella. Sprint said last year that test markets would be up in the 4Q of 2007 with commercial availability by 2Q of 2008. 100 million pops available by end of 2008. That's been the time line for quite a while now.
Technically non functional? They've had wimax networks up in Korea now for almost two years... And just because a protocol was ratified doesn't mean it's built out in 5 months...