Sprint CEO Dan Hesse tells an audience during the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas that his company invested in WiMax for its 4G technology out of a need to get into the 4G market quickly. However, Hesse also says he thought LTE would likely become the bigger 4G standard. Sprint introduced a 4G-capable smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G, at the conference.
– LAS VEGAS Sprint Nextel CEO
Dan Hesse suggested during a talk at the CTIA Wireless conference that his
company’s decision to invest in WiMax for its 4G technology, as opposed to LTE,
was out of a need to quickly create a footprint in the U.S.-based 4G market.
However, Hesse also said WiMax would…