LTE wasn't even an official standard 18 months ago. WiMAX is.

As I said before,

For example, if I had UMTS support on my Nokia N810 past 18 months it would be useful throughout my country, but not elsewhere in the world especially not out of EU. Why? Roaming costs...

We're going in circles. Your statements left the N810WME realm and were globally about WiMAX being vapourware (aka dead end). Yeah, in San Jose, CA, USA, North America, Earth perhaps but the world is bigger than that.

N810WME was specifically targetted for US market, for the XOHM network? Are you aware the world is bigger than the USA or North America? I don't like to belittle other countries, nor the relevance of their networks.

Yes, you'd be right Wikipedia List of Deployed UMTS networks is more impressing than Wikipedia List of Deployed WiMAX networks or even Wikipedia List of Deployed HSDPA networks or Wikipedia List of Deployed HSUPA networks. Networks have rolled out right now, and licenses have been sold too. I'td be dumb to buy a license without using it...

Are you aware Aerea is rolled out right now in Amsterdam, and Clearwire in Brussels? That they both want to provide country-wide coverage in 2011? If they succeed in that they are a viable alternative to the 3G and 4G of major mobile telcos. Its as bold as a statement that LTE will be rolled out in 2011. We don't know this for sure either...

Given popularity of netbooks which come with a 3G (UMTS) dongle it'd be easy to also sell these netbooks with WiMAX dongles.

Because my government, based on EU directive, is currently licensing both LTE and WiMAX for 2 additional telcos besides the 3 major ones I do not see why either one would have won already except current infrastructure.