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Clearwire targets 31 cities for LTE as WiMAX takes a beating
Explore GigaOM (Apr 26 2012) Mobility
...s to support and sell older devices – in preparation for its own LTE launch this summer. Eventually Sprint plans to tap into Clearwire’s new TD-LTE network, but that won’t be for at least a year. Luckily for the 4G operator, Sprint has decided to shift its Clearwire business to prepaid and will start selling Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile WiMAX devices next quarte...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire Sprint Nextel
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Best Buy Connect is Closed
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 26 2012) Mobility
...e less two years after the business got started. The service resold mobile broadband with access to Clearwire's (NASDAQ:CLWR) mobile WiMAX network and Sprint Nextel's (NYSE:S) EV-DO network; Best Buy also inked an MVNO deal with LightSquared. The news was first r......d standing will receive a Best Buy gift card, according to the memo. Best Buy first began reselling Sprint's EV-DO service in July ...
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As Sprint turns to LTE, WiMAX becomes its prepaid 4G network
Explore GigaOM (Apr 25 2012) Mobility
...xisting WiMAX smartphones and device customers, it won’t add many new ones – at least not under the Sprint banner. Network partner Clearwire supplies Sprint’s WiMAX capacity but it only does so in a limited footprint, making it increasingly difficult for Sprint to pit its current 4G service against its competitors large and growing LTE and HSPA+ networks. Sprint, however, is Clearwire’s majority stakeholder and has committed to ...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire LTE Sprint Nextel
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Sprint replacing Nextel network relic with LTE in 2014
Explore GigaOM (Apr 12 2012) Mobility
...is counting on getting a big boost in 2013 when its current mobile broadband provider, Clearwire, hopes to turn on its own LTE network, supplying Sprint with reams of cheap bandwidth. The only drawback with that plan is that Clearwire, so far, only plans to launch LTE in its current limited WiMAX footprint.
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Will today's next-generation MVNOs shake up the U.S. market?
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 3 2012) Business Models , Marketing
...rriers and even prepaid carriers." A quick primer on notable MVNOs: Republic Wireless, a Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) MVNO, shot to attention in November 2011 with unlimited voice, texting and data for $19 pe......s know when it's ready." Ting, an MVNO run by Internet domain company Tucows that also rides on Sprint's network, exited its beta testing and opened up to the general public Feb. 1. Customers ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire AT&T Sprint Nextel
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Clearwire Thinks Some LTE Networks Will Quickly Run Out of Spectrum
Explore FierceWireless (Mar 22 2012) Mobility
...es that companies that deploy LTE in 5 MHz of spectrum in the 1900 MHz spectrum band--which is what Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) is planning to do--will only be able to carry about 5.6 terabytes of data on one site per ......f data per site in one year. That amount of data, Cochran said, is equivalent to the amount of data Clearwire carries on its network today. The obvious ... (Read Full Article)
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Cricket Signs with Clearwire for LTE
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 14 2012) Mobility
...only" focus, making it an ideal partner, in terms of avoiding channel conflict. Up to this point, Sprint had been the only other service provider committed to using Clearwire Long Term Evolution facilities. In both cases, the firms are augmenting their own facilities. In so... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire LTE Sprint Nextel
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Cricket Communications to Buy LTE Capacity from Clearwire
Explore MobilityTechzone (Mar 14 2012)
...e-only" focus, making it an ideal partner, in terms of avoiding channel conflict. Up to this point, Sprint had been the only other service provider committed to using Clearwire Long Term Evolution facilities. In both cases, the firms are augmenting their own facilities. In so... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire LTE Rich Tehrani
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Clearwire could sign 'large carrier' soon, pines for LTE iPhone
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 29 2012) Business Models , Mobility
...le USA are in negotiations; the two firms did consider a partnership in 2010. However, he said that Clearwire could sign up another major carrier beyond Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), its majority owner and largest wholesale customer. "I think it is quite conceivable we ca...... Apple should have no problem building an LTE iPhone that would work for FDD variants of LTE--which Sprint will launch by mid-year--as well as TD-LTE ... (Read Full Article)
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Sprint to raise $2B in fresh debt, may help fund Clearwire
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 28 2012)
Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) said it intends to raise $2 billion in notes and may use some of the proceeds to fund Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR). The fresh debt offering comes after Sprint raised $4 billion in debt in November.
The sale of notes, which will be completed by March 1, wil...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire LTE Sprint Nextel
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Macro Base Stations with Fiber Backhaul to Approach 1.8 Million in 2014
Explore ECN: Electronic Component News (Feb 21 2012)
...Wave, British Telecom, Cambridge Broadband Networks, Ceragon Networks, China Mobile, Ciena, Cisco , Clearwire, Cox Communications, Deutsche Telekom, DragonWave, E-Band Communications, Entel, Ericsson, Exalt Co......T Corp, LG Uplus, LightPointe, Metroweb, MTS (Russia), NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Siklu, SK Telecom, Sprint, Taqua, Telefonica, Tellabs, Togo Cellulaire, Tower Cloud, VectaStar, Verizon, Virgin Media, Vodafo... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Telefonica Clearwire Vodafone
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Clearwire boasts strong Q4; weakness ahead
Explore cedmagazine.com (Feb 16 2012) Marketing
... an iconic device, we do not believe this metric is relevant." The fixed terms of its contract with Sprint for the next two years also shields Clearwire from the impact of the iPhone, Cochran said. However, the WiMAX provider has been scrambling to fi... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire Sprint Nextel Federal Communication Commission
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FreedomPop inks wholesale broadband deal with Clearwire
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 15 2012) Business Models
... for potential wholesale partners, and last week seemed to indicate that it was in discussions with Clearwire, Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) or T-Mobile USA. FreedomPop's agreement with LightSquared was not exclusive, and Tony Mill... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire Sprint Nextel Niklas Zennstrom
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Simplexity MVNO Services Enters into Agreement with Sprint
Explore Embedded M2M Solutions (Feb 7 2012) Marketing
...rated Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE), has entered into a multi-year wholesale agreement with Sprint to offer branded data and voice solutions. Simplexity MVNO Services, a fully integrated Mobile Virt......es seeking to provide quality voice and data wireless services to their customers. Back in January, Clearwire (News - Alert) Corporation, a provider of 4G wireless broadband services in the U.S., and Simplexit...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire Sprint Nextel
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Clearwire doubles Q4 revenue, adds 900K wholesale subs
Explore FierceWireless (Jan 24 2012)
...own from 1.42 million in the year-ago period and 1.86 million in the third quarter. The majority of Clearwire's wholesale customers are smartphone users from Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), Clearwire's majority owner and largest wholesale customer. BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk wrote in a research not......s to use $734 million from its recent stock offerings to help construct its TD-LTE network overlay. Sprint may also contribute ...
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Nicoll: LTE, VoLTE and HSPA+42 will highlight 2012
Explore FierceWireless (Jan 3 2012) Business Models , Marketing , Mobility
...ominates * Year in review 2011: Google buys Motorola amid raging patent wars * Year in review 2011: Sprint, Clearwire pick LTE, focus shifts to network size, scope * Year in review 2011: AT&T/T-Mobile deal highlight... (Read Full Article)
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Are 4G Sales Slow or Not?
Explore IP Carrier (Dec 26 2011) Business Models , Marketing , Mobility
...al markets to all markets, and from a mix of retail and wholesale to wholesale-only. Along the way, Clearwire also has merged its spectrum with that of Sprint. All of those changes make an "apples to apples" comparison challenging. So keep in mind that Clearwire had a five year to six year period where its growth was rather measured, not to mention that it beg...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire AT&T Sprint Nextel
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LightSquared adds money woes to GPS and Falcone problems
Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 20 2011)
...lions by shorting subprime mortgages in 2007. A LightSquared failure would also present trouble for Sprint — which only recently was able to sigh in relief over partner Clearwire's newfound financial solidity (CP: Clearwire raises $715.5 million toward LTE buildout). In July, Sprint and LightSquared penned an agreement stating that LightSquared will pay Sprint approximately $9 billion in cash, over an 11-year period, for spectrum hosting network services as ...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire LTE Sprint Nextel
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After collapse of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, what is AT&T's Plan B?
Explore FierceWireless (Dec 20 2011) Mobility
...r Piecyk, would be Dish Network, which has said it might be interested in partnering with T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) or others if the AT&T/T-Mobile deal fell through. Dish is seeking to acquire 40 MHz of S-......AT&T would use to expand beyond its current U-Verse footprint." One other option is spectrum-rich Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR), although Clearwire does have a strategic relationship with Sprint. Clearwire "could ... (Read Full Article)
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Merger aftermath: Everywhere AT&T loses, Verizon wins
...e is out of the question for the foreseeable future. If Verizon had any ambition on making a bid on Sprint, those hopes are now dead, though an acquisition of a MetroPCS or a Leap Wireless might still be po......z — to devote to 4G. Those deals will give Verizon the strongest spectrum in the industry outside Clearwire, but unlike Clearwire, Verizon has the financial wherewithal to turn its potential ...
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Comment Mentions: Clearwire AT&T Cox Communications
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Verizon, Cox Communications in New Deal
Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Dec 16 2011)
...the leading U.S. cable companies from the list of potential investors or buyers of assets including Sprint and Clearwire, as well as from the ranks of potential wholesale customers of LightSquared, Sprint or Clearwire. The deal also means a significant strategic change for the leading cable companies, which si... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire Cox Communications Sprint Nextel
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The LTE buildout timeline: Where U.S. carriers will be in 3 years
Explore FierceWireless (Dec 13 2011) Mobility
...to catch up, with plans to cover 70 million people with the technology by the end of this year. And Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) too plans to get into the game next year via its own spectrum, Clearwire's spectrum, and possibly LightSquared's spectrum as well.
And what of the smaller players? Leap W...
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Comcast to start reselling Verizon Wireless products in early 2012
Explore FierceWireless (Dec 6 2011)
...tions Conference, and said that even though Comcast will wind down its wholesale relationships with Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) and Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), Comcast will retain its 9 percent equity stake in Clearwire "for the foreseeable future." Verizon said on Friday it will pay $3.6 billion to buy the nationwi......iMAX service in about six months (some of the USB modems Comcast and Time Warner sold also accessed Sprint ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Clearwire Verizon Communications LTE
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Clearwire to raise $595M via stock offerings
Explore FierceWireless (Dec 6 2011)
...ers a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $45 million of its Class A stock. Separately, Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), which owns the majority economic interest in Clearwire, will purchase $295 million of Clearwire's Class B Common Stock in a private transaction, Sprint spokesman Scott Sloat confirmed to Bloomberg. As part of a wide-ranging series of agreements the tw... (Read Full Article)
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