There are two aspects to WiMAX: The hype and the reality. In terms of hype, this is not good news. Clearly the enthusiasm both parties had going into the agreement has waned -- more specifically on the Sprint side as they have alteratives whereas Clearwire must follow through with this model. In terms of the reality, it will depend on parters such as Intel and Microsoft to make sure the WiMAX mobile client hardware and drivers make it onto every laptop. Even with less coverage areas, Clearwire still has a chance to prove their model. If successful, Sprint and other will follow suit. If the WiMAX cards are not on your laptop, then the whole expensive adventure will never get off the ground.
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WiMAX end of the road of the hype
but it still means that the very over hyped "mobile" WiMAX is dead as small coverage area will be nomadic/special use. And why should Sprint follow it is much more likely they adapt to reality and go with WCDMA migrating to LTE (and use the high speed LTE as a short range radio with HSPA/LTE on lower frequency as national).
It is just to expensive to build WiMAX national coverage on the 2.5GHz (simple mathematic with a simple xls of the realistic CAPEX and OPEX costs)
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