Deutsche Telekom Considering Sprint Nextel Bid
Alltel would have been a better target.
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Long before the private equity firm purchased Alltel and then held it for Verizon, T-Mobile could have gotten them. Add to this the fact that the FCC is now controlled by the Democrats and I don't know if this merger would even be allowed.
Sprint currently has an estimated 47 billion in assets nationwide. On top of that they have nationwide coverage in the 840 mhz, 1900mhz, and the 2.4 ghz range. Not only do they have 3 nationwide spectrums, but the 1900 mhz spectrum that sprint uses still has plenty of available bandwidth and the 2.4 ghz is not even being used. This would mean that whatever carrier bought them cou...
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The truth of the matter is whether sprint owns the license or clear wire does it is pointless since sprint owns 51% of clear wire.If sprint chose to it could have clear wire sell the spectrum back to sprint.
stevelvl said:
As to the technical details who owns the license weather it is sprint or clear wire, i am not sure. I thought sprint retained all ownership of the 2.5 licensing, but i could be wrong.
The truth of the matter is whether sprint owns the license or clear wire does it is pointless since sprint owns 51% of clear wire.If sprint chose to it could have clear wire sell the spectrum back to sprint.
Nevertheless, it's spectrum that will and/or be used for WiMAX
Slammer said:
Or LTE. Sprint has made mention of possibly entertaing an LTE choice if WiMAX did not pan out. The 2.5ghz spectrum is very precious cargo in either aspect and there is a lot of it owned by Clearwire/Sprint.
I would prefer to see Sprint use WiMAX for a few years as a head start on the 4G competition yet an intermediate measure on the way to LTE.
When 800 MHz reconfiguration is finished, Sprint will retain SMR 800 MHz spectrum w/ 24 MHz bandwidth across most of the country. Sprint should redevelop that spectrum from iDEN 800 to LTE 800. Such would not require a flash cut from iDEN; rather, it could be done incrementally, as LTE supports channel bandwidths as small as 2.8 MHz. Additionally...
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Jarahawk said:
I have no idea what these guys are doing. Sprint's footprint is no better than their own. They should have targeted Alltel as I suggested previously.
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Long before the private equity firm purchased Alltel and then held it for Verizon, T-Mobile could have gotten them. Add to this the fact that the FCC is now controlled by the Democrats and I don't know if this merger would even be allowed.
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Thanks...I needed a good laugh!
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