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Wholesale 4g – From Sprint?!
Another industry first comes out of Overland park Kansas; where Sprint has announced that it will offer wholesale 4G sales. What does this mean exactly? Well it just means that it will allow other ISP or cable companies to use their system to offer 4G services. they will be providing the HTC Detail 3G/4G handset…
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Clearwire Adding 120Mbps “LTE-Advanced” to it’s Holdings
Well what a shocker we have here today! We all knew that Clearwire has been struggling to keep WiMax working properly; and we also knew that they were testing LTE technology at one point in Arizona. But what we did not expect to see was this! Clearwire says that this fall they are going to…
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Sprint Reduces Voting Rights with Clearwire.
This is a move that I think we all saw coming eventually. Sprint has reduced it’s stake in clear wire from 50% to 49.8%. A move that makes Sprint less likely to be held accountable if Clearwire defaults. Most importantly though is that Sprint maintains54% of the economic stake in Clearwire. See what was happening…
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Sprint May Announce LTE Leap Soon – How Soon? 6 Months Soon
It remains a very distinct possibility that Sprint will make the jump to LTE. Sprint issued an RFP exploring the migration to LTE, then they announced a multi-billion dollar network overhaul that could easily pave the way for such transition. We’ve also heard it from more than one employee over the last six months that…
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Clearwire 4G Coming To NY, LA & San Francisco
Clearwire, Sprint and Time Warner Cable announced today that they will be launching their 4G service in New York City on November 1, 2010. Isn’t this just what some of us wanted to hear? Also, in separate announcements, Clearwire and Sprint then spoke of the upcoming launch of 4G service in the San Francisco Bay…
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3 Sprint Executives Resign from Clearwire board
Thanks to member BooDaddy here at PPCG for pointing out this news to our site. According to sources at CNet, Clearwire said today that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and two other top Sprint executives, Keith Cowan and Steven Elfman, have resigned from Clearwire’s board of directors and will soon be naming temporary members to the…
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Sprint & T-Mobile USA May Team Up For 4G
The Wall Street Journal posted an article yesterday saying that Sprint is considering letting T-Mobile USA invest in Clearwire, Sprint’s 4G WiMAX partner. Sprint currently owns 54% of Clearwire. Everyone knows Clearwire is in desperate need of cash to continue building out its network, and allowing T-Mobile USA to invest would give them some of…
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Clearwire Updates List of Cities Receiving Wi-Max in 2010
Do you live in Los Angeles, Miami, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Salt Lake City? If you do, then Clearwire is coming to you (sometime this year)!
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T-Mobile and Clearwire May Share Their Toys
T-Mobile and Clearwire sitting in a tree: S-P-E-C-T-R-U-M-I-N-G First comes 3G, then comes 4G, then comes the Spectrum sharing! While this may appear ludicrous at first sight (Sprint owns majority of Clearwire, T-Mobile is looking at LTE for 4G while Clearwire builds it’s competing Wi-Max 4G network), it may be possible. The CEO of T-Mobile…
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Sprint To Debut WiMAX Phone Jan. 6th?
Eric Zeman from Information Week has put together some interesting leads which makes him believe LG will be debuting a Windows Mobile device to run on Sprint and Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX network. Sprint has scheduled a press conference on January 6th, the day before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). LG and Microsoft play a large…
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Google Won’t Invest Anymore Money Into Clearwire
Google announced today that it will not be investing anymore money into Clearwire, and that the best thing it could do to help the WiMAX carrier is by cooperating on products and strategy. They said they still support their efforts to build a high-speed wireless network using WiMAX. “We have already made a significant financial…
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Clearwire To Get Another $1.5 Billion
Sprint is preparing to put another billion dollars into Clearwire, its 4G WiMAX partner. Their other partners, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel and Google (exclude Google) are collectively putting in another $500 million into the pot. There are also rumors that Clearwire has looked at T-Mobile as another possible partner. If Sprint is losing customers…
