11-19-2012, 03:40 AM
Actually LTE is mostly WiMAX; Clearwire (which is mostly Sprint) has the most WiMAX deployment.
Native WiMAX is around 3.6GHz. LTE can be anywhere; VZW has most of the 700MHz band, which will have better range. (By the time you get near 2GHz, trees are a problem, you really need line-of-sight.)
There is an unlicensed WiMAX band available for "public" uses like a community-driven mesh-network; since it's nowhere near 2GHz/5GHz it makes a good backhaul.
Native WiMAX is around 3.6GHz. LTE can be anywhere; VZW has most of the 700MHz band, which will have better range. (By the time you get near 2GHz, trees are a problem, you really need line-of-sight.)
There is an unlicensed WiMAX band available for "public" uses like a community-driven mesh-network; since it's nowhere near 2GHz/5GHz it makes a good backhaul.