JustinFrascona

Ouch..only a year away!  Doesn't seem possible given that so many Wimax markets are many many months from

being launched (including my market here in Las Vegas which probably won't launch totally for another 12 months

at todays progress) 

 

Vegas has wimax coverage already lte may be a different story. At this point and time if you dont have wimax you will not get it.

i know its true like i said in my post prior to this if you are a clear partner you can call your clear rep and they will confirm this. Your "proof" will be mailed out next month to all clear customers. i have no reason to lie, just sharing my knowledge.

My clear representative. If you have a clear partner call your rep they can confirm.

official Wimax decommission date August 31 2014. 

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It doesn't matter if they don't run LTE and Wimax side by side, the fact is that all the current RRUs on the Wimax sites only support Wimax since they were installed before LTE existed. The current RRUs on all Clearwire sites need to be replaced with new RRUs regardless since the new RRUs support LTE techology. The side benefit of these new RRUs is that they are dual mode Wimax/LTE and can be run at the same time.

from what I understand any tower using huawei equipment only need a softwate update and the rrus do not need to be replaced just configured. There current ruus on the tower support wimax TD LTE . I think the name of the solution is singleran.

Depending on how old the antennas were installed, Clearwire plans to reuse them for LTE since it has the supported 2.5-2.7 GHz frequency range.  However all the RRUs on the current sites will need to be replaced with dual mode Wimax/LTE RRUs so it can support Wimax and LTE networks at the same time since all the current RRUs on Wimax sites are only single mode Wimax.

maybe they aren't planing to run LTE and wimax side by side if this is the case will they still need to replace them. Just asking ?

That part about permits he told you is wrong. Building permits are required to be in place before you can even put up the RRU's. Lack of support and/or backhaul could be the issue at hand. Hopefully soon though!

backhaul is a major issue here in south Florida for sprint . From what I was explained the ruu antennas between wimax and LTE are the same on the 2500mhz band .

I trust you since you work with the Clear partners.  I just thought you read it somewhere.  This is good news.   Any way that Sprint can get rid of the Clear brand and try to shut down Wimax ASAP I am all for it.  I just want the 2.5 GHz spectrum refarmed into TD-LTE.

seriously. I have LTE all over the city except of course my house the closest tower (across the street) is a clear owned wimax tower. My clear rep told me most of the towers (in my market) have already been converted and the only reason they haven't been turned on is due to permits and lack of support at this point.

Do you have a link to confirm this?   How did you find out about this?

I didn't read this. I work at a cellular store in North Miami Beach my clear rep told me. Also he said the best buy latest shipment of wimax clear devices was canceled. We were told sell what we have in stock now because after the 31st it will be dead stock and we will also lose access to the portal. If you know a clear rep give him a call they can confirm.

Clearwire is officially closing after the 31st of august they won't allow any new activations after that date. They also will be clossing the portal for all dealers. Judging by this wimax will be shut down earlier than later probably by Sep 2014.