The Big Shift: Moving to LTE From WiMAX

Source: GigaOm
If WiMAX is a fad — a short-term bridge on the path to LTE as the global fourth-generation wireless standard — how will operators move from one network technology to another? Russian WiMAX provider Yota said last week that it would stop deploying WiMAX networks and switch instead to LTE for the remainder of its buildout, and a few weeks before that Clearwire changed an agreement it had with its top investor, Intel, to make it easier for the U.S. operator to switch to an LTE network from WiMAX.