As the nation’s wireless carriers rush to compete with faster 4G speeds on either WiMax or LTE technology, their workers are toiling in the trenches to make it happen.

One senior manager of handset marketing at Sprint Nextel, Trevor Van Norman, estimates he has helped launch 150 different phones over six years, and this week helped launch the WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G, a smartphone seen as a boon for Sprint’s WiMax service now in 27 cities and operated by Clearwire.

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