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Clearwire Will Sell Spectrum To Feed Its Money Woes

Dec 6, 2010, 11:21 AM by Philip Berne

Clearwire Corp, which runs the Clear network also used by Sprint's 4G service, is hoping to earn up to $2 billion this year by selling off unused spectrum licenses. The company has reportedly been in talks with both Sprint, which owns 54% of Clearwire, as well as T-Mobile, as part of an ongoing spectrum auction. The revelation came from comments Chief Financial Officer Erik Prusch made to investors at a UBS conference. In addition to the spectrum sale, Clearwire might also pursue an equity funding investment, perhaps from partner Sprint. The two companies have recently been at odds over wholesale service fees that Clearwire requires from Sprint customers, but arbitration proceedings next year could resolve these differences.

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Azeron

Dec 6, 2010, 12:58 PM

Better!

This is more like it. If T-Mobile can afford to buy its own spectrum from Clearwire then that is something they should consider. Partnering with Clear and Sprint? No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

CellStudent

The best thing T-mobile could do here is pick up some of Clearwire's 3+ GHz bands for wireless backhaul, just like WiMAX does.

It doesn't look like like federal data wholesaling regulations are going to take off any time soon. They're going to much...
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AndroidRules

Azeron said:
This is more like it. If T-Mobile can afford to buy its own spectrum from Clearwire then that is something they should consider. Partnering with Clear and Sprint? No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

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SublimeDavid

Dec 6, 2010, 12:49 PM

Opportunities

T-mobiless Opportunity to get spectrum for a LTE Network begins... I wouldn't be surprised if they get into this so they're not stuck with Clearwire and even worse sprint in a three way Clearwire deal with network rental fees etc... If they were smart they should get into that 800 mhz that sprint is freeing up from their Iden network.

CellStudent

I personally don't see T-mobile deploying LTE for a long, long time. When they do, I suspect they'll do it by shuttering the 2G network and re-using those band for LTE.

The one question I'm dying to hear an answer too is: "Which spectrum ba...
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Caucasian

Sprint isn't selling off any spectrum though, Clear is, so I don't know how they'd just

I don't think Sprint has any intention of selling that off, but when iDEN gets retired I believe it will be put back into use for better building penetration wi...
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Azeron

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