Sprint, Clearwire CEOs ponder LTE for future

From CNET News.com: Sprint Nextel and Clearwire executives admitted Wednesday that they could follow the rest of the worldwide wireless network and adopt LTE for future network upgrades.

Spring Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow sat down separately and talked to CTIA CEO Steve Largent during the keynote session on the second day of the CTIA trade show.

In 2008, Sprint and Clearwire combined spectrum and formed a partnership to build a nationwide network using a technology called WiMax. During the keynote conversations, Largent asked each executive about his company's decision to use WiMax over other technologies, such as LTE, or Long Term Evolution. Today, most of the world's wireless carriers, including fellow CDMA carrier Verizon Wireless plan to use LTE to build their next generation wireless networks.

Hesse admitted that LTE will be the dominant technology throughout the world when it comes to 4G wireless. But he said Sprint could add LTE down the road when it needs to upgrade to 5G wireless.

"Because of our spectrum position, we can always add other technologies later," he said.

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