The system is also made future proof by a patent-pending capability to swap out the wireless card should hardware technology change or if the user chooses a different networkinfrastructure in the future.
If you're Clearwire or Sprint right now, the last thing you want to hear is one of the world's major suppliers of wirelessinfrastructure badmouthing the very technology that underpins your next-gen network -- so we imagine there's some groaning in the hallways and boardrooms of the world's WiMAX carriers today.
Through ECOtality's new partnership, Sprint will provide the wirelessnetwork that will allow ECOtality to monitor and manage the Blink Network, an infrastructure of electric vehicle chargers across the United States, for use by consumers as well as commercial hosts.