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    Clearwire has been gradually releasing the names of its vendors of choice for its 4G build-out. Along with Motorola and Samsung, Huawei will be Clearwire’s primary RAN vendor and will also provide the base stations and other key infrastructure. Clearwire had previously tapped Cisco Systems to build its IP core, Amdocs for billing, mediation and customer management services and Mformation for its device management platform supplier . Ciena provides base station switching for Clearwire, and DragonWave and Motorola supply the network’s microwave backhaul transport. http://connectedplanetonline.com/3g4g/news/clearwire-4g-wimax-huawei-0811/
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    They are not replacing Wimax with LTE yet. They are deploying LTE in addition to WiMax.
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    I think that DragonWave which is what Clearwire used for microwave backhaul is .8Gbps/1.6Gbps, so the backhaul tech is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the bandwidth purchased, not the tech.
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    Some (all) of the Samsung basestations were dual Wimax/LTE. I don't think the Motorola ones could be repurposed.
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    Yes, Sprint has a right of first refusal.
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    Well I'm glad you are buying American, although I heard that Airbus will establish a factory in the US in the future.
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    Who is we?
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    Yes it is but they did not make very many of them and the program was terminated soon after.
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    And if you go there, the only other aircraft listed is the 737-700 According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTran_Airways Airtran only has 737 and 717s
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    You might want to read this link: http://www.airtran.com/aircraft/new_717_jets.aspx
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    AirTran only flies Boeing 737 and 717 and they will get rid of the 717s.
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    I avoid both of them like the plague. US Airways has more modern planes. American has the MD 80/88 fleet that's like a noose around their necks. They also have way too many other plane types, making maintenance difficult and mistake prone and expensive. I hope they get to modernize their fleet.
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    I guess they're only using 10Mhz channels.
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    Yes, it was, and Sprint would have been the natural partner, since they could have used the money to finish their network vision project. Well Softbank happened and Sprint does not need their money anymore and probably told Dish to go pound sand. That's why Dish is going after Clearwire. T-Mobile has shown no interest in partnering with Dish.
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    Tim Farrar seems to think that company X is SpectrumCo, they would have exchanged spectrum for equity.
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    They don't need Sprint to do that. China Mobile is already on board. It's also one of the LTE global bands. I fervently believe that the T-Mobile/Sprint merger is going to happen. It's a matter of when, not if.
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    Oh, I think that it would be great if the two merged. It would present much more of a competitor for the other two behemoths. That's why I think that the fuss over Clearwire is completely unwarranted. If Sprint could offload Clearwire to Dish for some decent money and then seriously go after T-Mobile I will be extremely happy.
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    I don't know about US Cellular, but the Sprint/T-Mobile merger is seriously been looked at. It is an open secret that T-Mobile and Sprint held merger discussions in the past. There's still interest on both sides. Both sides think that there will be further consolidation. The problem is the longer they keep looking at it, the harder it will become to integrate the systems.
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    I think they want the Clearwire spectrum as well.
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    Here's Tim Farrar's excellent speculation on the whole Clearwire/Dish situation: http://tmfassociates.com/blog/2013/02/04/did-atts-spectrum-deep-dive-dump-dish-deal/ I was thinking that if Sprint plays this right, they can get their own spectrum back then sell Clearwire to Dish along with their debt. Dish is desparate to get somebody to help deploy their spectrum. Sprint can make that a reality by first buying Clearwire and then selling the network and EBS leases to Dish.
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    it turns out that Dish made a preliminary offer to Clearwire before Sprint did: http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2013/02/01/dishs-ergen-made-3-billion-bid-for.html?page=4 There's some interesting chronology in that article.
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    AJ, he's your favorite analyst. Roger Entner is mine!
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    I'm a major supporter of Sprint's efforts to get as much PCS spectrum as possible by hook or by crook including acquiring Metro and Leap and trading their AWS spectrum for PCS.
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    Maybe then they can flip between those blocks instead of aggregating them. Carrier aggregation is beneficial when the blocks are near empty. Once they get filled up then aggregation loses its apparent benefit to the end user.
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    AJ, they would have those interference concerns whether they were doing carrier aggregation or not and whether they were the owners of the A1 block or not.
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