Masayoshi Son Would Consider Selling Sprint Spectrum
Wrong Again
All the idiots who said that Sprint's acquisition of Clearwire was mistake because LTE was the future -- well, now everybody wants what they have.
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It wasn't that LTE wasn't a good idea. It was, and it will be for another few years. But in the long run, the clearwire spectrum will be worth a ton. The problem is, most carriers are short sighted and only concerned about the next fiscal year. See, Verizon seilling towers to cover dept.
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This spectrum is far more valuable than many thought. Capacity in crowded areas is the future, and that's exactly what this spectrum does.
Dish already bid up the AWS spectrum to be far more than what people thought it was worth.
Dish already bid up the AWS spectrum to be far more than what people thought it was worth.
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The acquisition of the company Clearwire was wrong, it was in debt, was providing not only limited service areas, but on top of that, the WiMAX technology itself was limited in what it was able to do over LTE (There is fixed and mobile WiMAX, Clearwire used fixed, when reality was Sprint and Clearwire needed mobile for what they were trying to do), and after plunking in billions of dollars per year, wasted away, it seemed buying Clearwire as a company, was overspending for the spectrum that they had.
Combine that spending with the fact that even if the amount of spectrum may be worth the price, the high frequency of it, meant that they would have to invest yet more cash into deploying (to have decent indoor/outdoor coverage) the network - m...
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Combine that spending with the fact that even if the amount of spectrum may be worth the price, the high frequency of it, meant that they would have to invest yet more cash into deploying (to have decent indoor/outdoor coverage) the network - m...
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rwalford79 said:
...Thats the issue most people are saying, I believe, is that they just overspent and underperformed.
Most people ridiculed Sprint for buying Clearwire because LTE was "the futrue of 4G." Now, they are sitting on a gold mine of spectrum that no one else was previously willing to "overspend" and purchase. Bet your bottom dollar that any company who purchases it now won't get the same "bad deal" Sprint received.
Nextel18 predicted this years ago and was right.
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