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Hold the Obit: Sprint pays $105M for spectrum, will focus on WiMAX

August 12, 2010
By Alan Weissberger

Tweet Sprint will buy 10 MHz of spectrum from Wirefree Partners III for $105 million to boost its coverage in 16 markets, the carrier noted in a newly filed quarterly report. Wirefree Partners was formed by former executives of Sprint affiliate AirGate PCS, which was acquired by Alamosa Holdings, which Sprint then purchased. In...
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Clearwire and Sprint ask 3GPP for TDD-LTE U.S. std in 2.6GHz band

March 31, 2010
By Alan Weissberger

Tweet  Introduction Clearwire and Sprint are part of a group of operators and vendors that have asked the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards body to start work on specs that would allow TD-LTE to be deployed in the US in the 2.6GHz spectrum — which is now used for mobile WiMAX in the U.S.  The...
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3G and LTE squeeze WiMAX- is the market window still open?

February 21, 2009
By Alan Weissberger

Tweet Summary: Many pundits have declared the window of opportunity for WiMAX has closed.  Squeezed between he enhanced capability of 3G technologies (e.g. HSPA/HSPA+ for GSM) and accelerated LTE roll-outs, (notably Verizon Wireless) the claim is that WiMAX is DOA.  We disagree!  In particular, we believe there is a reasonable market for WiMAX fixed and...
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