Interesting to note that Clearwire in many cases uses Licensed Dragon wave
for backhaul, and Sprint jsut recently purchased large amounts of Dragonwave
stock (or something like that), and both have licensed 2.5Ghz. I think this
was probably a good move for Sprint and Clearwire, and it looks like they
are aligning to be a company that is ownerous toall components required to
deliver the end solution, "gear", "spectrum", and "tower sites", and "
company".
What will be interesting to see is whether Clearwire's debt and operating
costs, combined with Sprint's declining market share of cell phone and
wireline data services, will burry the joint venture, even with all the
synergies that exists, for them to work togeather. Personally, I think it
was a smart move on both company's part to work togeather, to reduce their
competition. With them being the only two real offerers of potential
licensed Wimax networks, it should help their stock value escalate.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
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From: "Frank Muto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Sprint Nextel and Clearwire
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have announced that they will jointly
construct their WiMAX networks and eventually sell the services jointly
under one brand. The deal still needs to gain approval by the Department
of Justice and the FCC because the companies plan on exchanging selected
2.5 GHz spectrum license assignments.
Under the network build-out plan, Sprint Nextel will focus its efforts
primarily on geographic areas covering approximately 185 million people,
including 75 percent of the people located in the 50 largest markets,
while Clearwire will focus on areas covering approximately 115 million
people. Initially, the two companies expect to build out network coverage
to approximately 100 million people by the end of 2008, with seamless
roaming enabled between the deployed areas.
"Our joint efforts will result in customers benefiting from a more
extensive network, operating sooner and using our respective spectrum more
efficiently than either company could have on its own," said Clearwire
Chief Executive Officer Ben Wolff.
The companies will sell services under one brand and Clearwire will sell
subscriptions to the service at Sprint locations within Clearwire's
territories. Sprint plans to provide dual-mode (CDMA-WiMAX) services
nationwide to its customers both on its own and Clearwire's portion of the
WiMAX networks.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/press-release-sprint-nextel-clearwire-partner-expand-deployment-first-nationwide-mobi
Frank Muto
President
FSM Marketing Group, Inc
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