Not sure why you cant have a reasonable conversation/debate without resorting to insults, useless off the cuff sarcasm, red herrings, blatant misquote and misconstruing of others statements. Actually that does describe a certain condition, Im sure it can be located in wikipedia.
Japan's upcomming LTE offering is significant, however you ignore all the realities of this type of implemenation. You offer it and some absurd line of reasoning as anecdotal support for whats not even a position but what appears to be an attempt to mitigate Sprint's (and other carriers) offerings without any analysis.
Technologies that conform to imt advanced's seemingly arbitrary specs are on the horizon, wimax 2 and lte advanced, among others, though it remains to be seen what and when they make it to deployment. Its not as though this (significant) move forward pre-empts further advancement.
The itu's shortsightedness on the evolution and the actual potential for implementation of technology is at fault here, not Sprint, Clear or any other carrier who is actually doing the work. Using the term 4g on what is clearly faster technology prior to implementation of one that meets a conglomerate of bureaucrats specs (being well in excess of current wired connections)could be called at the very worst opportunist. Given the nature of competitive marketing it is reasonable to assume that the first carrier to deploy service that represents a significant leap in speed (not the increase from 1 to 2 mb/s you mitigated it to be) would opt to use the natural 4th generation term and market it.
Anyone hung up on the use of that term is just being petty, or perhaps is just continuing to chomp chomp chomp after an episode of foot in mouth. Your argument of arbitrary 4,5 and 7g garbage, among others being without any rational only re-enforces the latter.
I do agree, however, that there really isnt much point in continuing the conversation, as there isn't much constructive debate and your posts dont offer any support or insight, sensible or not.