Clearwire LTE Lights up in June 2013

It will be a while then....

I didn't even look at the year when I read the headline! And here I thought 4 months from now sounded reasonable...

But I guess sprint has given them enough of a lifeline to be able to accomplish this. ATT & VZ probably aren't going to be able to derail this one, and they'll likely just have to live with an LTE wholesaler in their midst. Not that it will be an easy road for clearwire in any case.

Sprint will be coming out with LTE phones this year that will be on 1900Mhz. I wonder if the radios will also support Clear's LTE on 2.5Ghz.

Also, Clear says they'll start with 5K sites and target 8K sites longer term. How many WiMAX sites do they have today?

I believe they have @ 16k, but I don't have a source to cite right at this moment.

I grew tired of hearing excuses of "We're upgrading our towers. It will be three months and you'll see better speeds." They sure didn't have a problem finding ways to increase fees NOW. I was seeing network congestion which made the dial-up days of the 90s seem better. Although we will be paying more for our service through US Cellular, at least we have data we can actually use! I'm not worried about not having 4G. When I actually NEED a faster connection, I'm usually in a wi-fi zone anyway. You can't believe Sprint's time frames one bit!

You never could after they went down hill. Their network is getting to be to the point where in metro area its unusable even when near a tower, you still don't get service. They give you an AiRave which is a POS to start off with and blame your Internet connection; even if you use 3 different provides in 3 totally different areas of your state. And yet its still your fault and they kill your contracts because you told them how their service is.

Sprint will go the way of the birds in the winter if they don't start improving; and that needs to be done FAST. Maybe even under a new CEO that isn't worried about the iPhone. I remember the days where Sprint had their own brand o equipment/devices and worked GREAT and now NOTHING.

Sprint will never get my business as their network is limited to the interstate system and their customer service is not that great. I bought a Phone on their Nextel unit and returned it under their buyer's remorse policy. Dealing with their "Authorized Agent" was a horrible experience. I am not sure if they charge for roaming but the reason Verizon and AT&T are more popular is they have way more native coverage than Sprint and T-Mobile. I remember when Verizon had roaming and a lot of non native coverage known as the extended network. Maine used to be Extended Network on VZW until they bought Unicell.

well if check your coverage with Nextel first they are NOT a roaming network. There are only TWO iDEN networks in the country that are any thing to speak of. Nextel and Southern Link which they roam on to.

Sprint does roam in areas they need to and your phone being set to. And they do have a LOT of native coverage as they built out 99% of their network will very little buyouts like VZW. VZW still has "extended" network coverage known as ROAMING you have to zoom in on their map to see it or watch your phone. T-Mobile also roams on to T and other carriers. Just in certain areas which also is changing with the new roaming agreement.

Errr...Unicel was a GSM based provider here in Maine. Verizon still operates the GSM network here as well, for the roaming revenue.