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Clearwire Shopping Spectrum to Raise Funds

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Oct 12, 2010, 9:14 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, Clearwire is attempting to auction off some of its surplus spectrum in order to raise the funds necessary to continue operations. Sources with knowledge of the matter say that the auction has garnered interest from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Germany's Deutsche Telekom. Clearwire is seeking to raise at least $5 billion. None of the companies involved offered comment, though Clearwire had previously confirmed that it was in talks with Deustche Telekom's T-Mobile USA operations. It is not known what spectrum allocations Clearwire is looking to sell.

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CellStudent

Oct 12, 2010, 9:50 PM

Well, so much for...

...buying tons of spectrum and holding on to it for development 10 years down the road.

Nextel spent 1/2 a billion dollars on some narrow bands of 700 MHz spectrum back in September 2000. Maybe they could get some cash out of that holding from auction #33.

Too bad all they bought was B block spectrum. Verizon would give a tooth or two for those upper A-block bands!!!

Better luck next time, CLEAR.

http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auc ... »

http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/data/bandplans/700b ... »

http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/33/charts/33cls2.pdf »
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Oct 12, 2010, 9:24 PM

excellent smithers

its high time the underdog got asked to come to the prom 😳
 
 
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