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Curious about Clearwire?
Wireless broadband firm Clearwire is no stranger to the headlines. Ever since the company announced last May that it would merge with Sprint Nextel's WiMAX business to create a new company (with a... Read more >>
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Would You Bid on This Spectrum?
You have decided to bid on 10 MHz (5X5) of the 700 MHz spectrum. For $5 million a year, you can gain another 12 MHz (6X6) of adjacent spectrum. The only caveat is that the first responder community... Read more >>
AT&T reiterates: LTE a long way off
AT&T reiterated its position Wednesday at the 4G Executive Summit in Chicago that its HSPA and HSPA-plus 3G network technology still had a lot of life left in it, and that Long-term Evolution... Read more >>
Live from WiMAX World: 133M WiMAX users by 2012
CHICAGO-- The U.S. economy may be in shambles but that didn't deter swarms of WiMAX proponents from converging in Chicago for the 5th Annual WiMAX World conference. During the opening session, WiMAX... Read more >>
Florida school leases spectrum to Clearwire
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) officials have FCC approval to lease 24 of 26 unused broadband channels in its EBS spectrum to Clearwire for up to $173 million for the next 10 years. FAU has held... Read more >>
Comcast exec sees end of year Clearwire close
Comcast, which was a regional mobile wireless player before it sold off that "non-essential" business to Cingular back in the 1990s, is eager to get back into the space as a member of the new... Read more >>
Radioframe gets $26M in funding for femtocells
RadioFrame Networks closed on a $28 million round of Series F financing, bringing it total funding to more than $100 million since 2001. The vendor, which is backed by such diverse companies as... Read more >>
Sprint/Clearwire to AT&T: public in favor of JV
Sprint and Clearwire wasted no time responding to AT&T's request to deny the planned joint venture between the two companies. Last week, AT&T said that the Sprint/Clearwire venture would... Read more >>
Report: 2.1B wireless broadband customers by 2015
U.K.-based research firm Analysys Mason estimates there will be 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers generating $784 billion in revenue by 2015. Analysys also says although WiMAX and LTE will be... Read more >>
Georgia city contracts with Clearwire for WiMAX
The Milledgeville, Ga., city council has voted to contract with Clearwire for a muni-WiMAX network as an outgrowth of Clearwire's efforts to build WiMAX in nearby Atlanta. In 2006, Milledgeville... Read more >>
Sprint sells off towers to pay down debt
Sprint Nextel has agreed to sell almost all of its towers to private tower company TowerCo for about $670 million in cash. The number of towers sold is expected to be around 3,300, leaving Sprint... Read more >>

