Saying goodbye is never easy to do. Sprint has officially confirmed the demise of WiMax as set for November 6th 2015. Legally they have to relay this information to their customers at least 1 year in advance. Sprint is working with its various partners that rely on and use the WiMax side of things on how to move forward when things shut down entirely. Luckily they have just over a year for new hardware, software and integration. Not that they didn’t know this day was coming.
For devices that at dual-band WiMax and 3G compatible users can expect their device to switch over and only use 3G after the mentioned date. The time line also gives customers plenty of time to get a new device. With Sprints 4G and Spark services rolling out fairly well, there will be lots of options that will probably be better.
Source: Fiercy Wireless Via Android Central
