I think maybe ITFS (educational) spectrum became EBS, and MMDS (commercial) spectrum became BRS. Clearwire did lease a bunch of EBS from educational license holders as well.
From: Bill Prince Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 10:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Clear / Sprint / 2.5 Access Prior to Clear, Sprint owned that spectrum; they had a "Sprint broadband" service in the bay area for a while. I don't think it's the whole of 2.5; what I'd heard was 25MHz or maybe 50MHz worth of it. They pulled the plug on the Sprint broadband, and sold the spectrum to Clearwire. Which became Clear. Now Clear is going bust, and Sprint is getting it back. It's going around like a bad penny. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 3/18/2015 5:24 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Sprint already owned >50% of Clear (well, most of the time). 100% of the Clear network is getting shuttered in favor of 8T8R LTE (almost the same coverage as regular 1.9 LTE). WiMax is getting shut down in November and their Huawei LTE stuff is getting pulled per the terms the government imposed. If there's not an existing 2.5 license in your area you can sub-lease, you can't get any 2.5... for now. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Josh Reynolds" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 7:18:29 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Clear / Sprint / 2.5 Access I have been hearing rumors over the past several weeks, one in particular this morning made it's way into my inbox. I wanted to confirm a few things I've heard, and go over what I thought I know/knew. So, Clear owns 2.5. "The schools" were assigned this at one point, something something blah blah. Anywho, Clear gets bought by Sprint. Sprint cuts a bunch of the clear workforce/network. Now Telrad (and maybe 1 more?) are selling 2.5GHz solutions. So, questions: If the schools in your area didn't "claim" 2.5GHz when they had the chance to, is it possible to gain access to the band? Who would I talk to about gaining access? Does anybody have an email/phone number? Also, what kind of pricing are we looking at? Thanks. I'm a bit fuzzy on all this, and trying to confirm some rumors. -- -- Josh Reynolds CIO, SPITwSPOTS www.spitwspots.com
