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stuaw11 Read what I said above, there are a TOTAL of about 600,000 WIMAX subscribers right now. Sprint ONLY has 29 million CDMA customers. And WIMAX is ONLY in a few cities. Thats not exactly a huge draw for the top selling phone to sell big numbers
They basically screwed themselves going WIMAX for 4G since no one else in the US is going that route, its a proprietary technology like IDEN that no one else uses, so making a whole other device instead of just one device (LTE) makes no sense if you cant sell a crap load of them.
Why R&D and build a phone to sell a million or 2 total?
It would be silly to build a CDMA ONLY phone because CDMA for data is on its way out and 4G coming in. Itd make zero sense to build a 3G CDMA EVDO phone at this point. VZW is going LTE around the end of the year into next year, and ATT a few months after, so if anything youd see a CDMA/LTE phone LONG before a CDMA/WIMAX phone.
VZW has a lot more money and subscribers to offer Apple to build that phone, and Sprint doesnt use the same 4G technology. IF VZW isnt getting one, odds are there arent any plans for a CDMA model anytime soon because VZW would be first on the list to get it.