Politics Are What Held Up WiMax In San Francisco [4G]

San Franciscans are some of the likely folks in America to take to WiMax 4G. So why’d they must wait so long to get it, despite indications that it was customarily able to launch months ago? Hooray, bureaucracy!

Apparently the folk who push pencils inside the San Francisco government have many of the strictest cell antenna approval processes within the country, which caused a whopping eight months of red tape delays. As though that weren’t bad enough, when Sprint and WiMax finally did get approval, they were hit with an appeal over earthquake preparedness.

Fortunately, it looks as though that’s all old news at this point, as 4G has kicked in for the Bay area. Somewhere, some HTC Evo owner finally got your entire phone he paid for. [ SF Weekly via Engadget ]

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