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Those are extremely confidential numbers. You can get an idea of the relatively size if you can look up the number of blocks of numbers each operator owns in that area. Not accurate but just a ball park estimate. I used to have a link to a website for that info, but I have no idea where it is or whether it is still alive.

They have enough spectrum to do fixed broadband. Now are the economics worth it? I don't know, maybe:). I Would like to hear what their plans are for the prodigious amount of spectrum that Clearwire has.

I don't think that they really want MetroPCS, they just want some extra PCS spectrum in markets where they only have 20MHz. So they might make a counteroffer just to scare T-Mobile and make them divest some PCS spectrum.

They are not, but even if they were, they would be dropped, since Sprint sells to the federal government and the federal government is very leery of Huawei.

The U.S. wireless industry is back in consolidation mode. But the spoils aren't going to all investors. Since the start of the year, shares in Sprint Nextel, which Japan's Softbank agreed to buy control of in October, are up 133%. MetroPCS Communications, which Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA is buying, is up only 15%. Is T-Mobile getting a steal? T-Mobile agreed in October to a cash-and-stock merger with MetroPCS. The deal, including a planned $4.09 cash dividend but excluding synergies, valued MetroPCS shares at between $9.27 and $16, depending on the multiple applied, according to Sanford C. Bernstein. Include the company's projected $800 million in synergies, and that value reaches $11.84 to $19.51 a share. Yet shares of MetroPCS closed Tuesday at $9.96. Indeed, the shares have fallen 27% since their closing price the day before the deal was announced. The U.S. wireless industry is back in consolidation mode. But the spoils aren't going to all investors. Since the start of the year, shares in Sprint Nextel, which Japan's Softbank agreed to buy control of in October, are up 133%. MetroPCS Communications, which Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA is buying, is up only 15%. http://online.wsj.co...0522987792.html Subscription required if you click on the link directly. Google it first to get around the subscription req.

I would have to see statistics on what is the current demand for uplink vs downlink. With Carrier aggregation technology, they can use WCS for downlink. Of course they will have to get the approval of FCC with respect to interference with adjacent bands. However I'm not sold on 80GHz as a point to multipoint tech yet. Point to point, yes. I would like to see the fruits of this research.

Something tells me that Huawei will be dropped like a hot potato:).

CommScope's wide-band antenna supports multiple bands, air interfaces December 19, 2012 | By Tammy Parker Share Tools Comment Print Contact Author Reprint CommScope's Argus UltraBand ultra-wideband antenna system is designed to support nine frequency bands for major air-interface standards, which the company said could reduce the number of antennas in operators' networks and lower their tower leasing costs. "This technology advancement is about providing a wideband antenna that supports virtually all combinations of the air interface technology--GSM, CDMA, iDen, UMTS, LTE, HSPA, WiMAX and even Wi-Fi--in bands that include virtually every frequency that is being utilized or planned for utilization in the next several years," Philip Sorrells, vice president, strategic marketing-wireless, at CommScope, told FierceBroadbandWireless in an email. CommScope said its ultra-wideband antennas support "US700, EU Digital Dividend, US Cellular and GSM900 for the lower bands and DCS1800, PCS, AWS, 3G, and WiMax for the higher bands." Webinar: Vectoring Demystified Date: December 18, 11 am ET / 8 am PT Vectoring has been a hot term over the past few months, but do you really know what it is or how it can positively impact your business? Join ADTRAN experts as they explore the ins and outs of this new ultra broadband technology. Register Now!Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox! "At the top of the band, this antenna technology covers up to 2690 MHz. That additional bandwidth allows it to be used in WiMAX applications, as well as LTE and even simple Wi-Fi systems," said Sorrells. Read more: CommScope's wide-band antenna supports multiple bands, air interfaces - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/commscopes-wide-band-antenna-supports-multiple-bands-air-interfaces/2012-12-19#ixzz2FWKwF4tE Is this a solution to the Clearwire integration headaches at the basestation level without the need for additional antennas to accommodate the 2.6GHz band?

It would be OK for a downlink. Plenty of bandwidth. Uplink, not so much.

Well, it looks like AT&T just deployed LTE in the Melboune market. I was hoping that Sprint would be the second one to offer service aftre Verizon, but no such luck.

Can I play peacemaker here? It is clear to everybody, and I hope to mhammett, that this board is not a Sprint rant board. There are are plenty of other boards for that. What this board is all about is technical insights into the technology that Sprint and it's competitors are deploying, speculation about future business and technological developments and some insights and news on already existing and future devices. Even iOS vs Android fighting is discouraged. So, everybody calm down and just enjoy what this board has to offer.

As a side note, the FCC approved AT&T's purchase of WCS spectrum from NextWave, Comcast, et al http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db1218/FCC-12-156A1.pdf

I wonder if Sprint will try to get rid of the EBS portion and keep the BRS portion. EBS is mostly leased, so they should try to get rid of that first. Dish? DirectTV?

In conjunction with my post above, here are some scientific developments that obviate the need for additional spectrum: The method -- time-domain transmit beamforming -- involves digitally creating a time-domain cancellation signal, coupling it to the radio frequency front end to allow the radio to hear much weaker incoming signals while transmitting strong outgoing signals at the same frequency and same time. Today's wireless radios use two separate channels to transmit and receive signals, but full duplex radios transmit signals at the same time in the same frequency band. This can double the efficiency of the spectrum, but the problem is often interference between the transmission and receiving functions on full duplex radios. http://www.innovationgeneration.com/author.asp?section_id=2807&doc_id=256003& And algebraic answers to the capacity crunch: http://www.innovationgeneration.com/author.asp?section_id=2557&doc_id=253598

I know, it is very low and there was no other credible offer. It was either Sprint or bankruptcy. Masayoshi Son is a good deal maker and sees the value in distressed companies like Sprint and now Clearwire.

I want to throw this up for discussion and I am assuming that the Sprint/Clearwire transaction goes through. What is Sprint going to do with all that spectrum? I don't think they will need all that spectrum for smartphones. So, do they use it for fixed broadband, car wireless connectivity, internet of things, or what?

Masayoshi Son is not finished wheeling and dealing. There are more deals coming. Bank on it. The guy is fearless but also has good instincts.

A sale to AT&T makes a lot of sense particularly since AT&T can use Dish's 700MHz lower E block as well as their AWS-4 spectrum. A Sprint partnership could work, but Sprint does not need yet another band on their phones. Sprint can sell them Clearwire's network and some of that 160MHz of spectrum, particularly if Dish wants to use it for fixed broadband and VOD instead of mobile broadband. I want to see their business model. T-Mobile, Dish and Metro makes sense up to a point. It would definitely help defray the cost of developing a network, but they will have the same problem as Sprint. They will have LTE on AWS and PCS and then AWS-4 and they probably want to roam on somebody like AT&T or Verizon or Sprint, so that will be 4 bands again.

The $10B includes Sprint's part of the company. The $7.7 does not. It just includes what they paid for the part of Clearwire they don't own plus debt plus lease obligations.

It depends on how far away from the tower the handset is and whether we are talking about interference with the tower itself or with the reception of an adjacent handset. The fact remains that interference rejection is not rigorously tested at the FCC or should I say at the contractors that test for the FCC.

Unfortunately Robert, speed tiers will probably not be offered, just total number of GB. But that's another rant for another day.

There's always two sides There is always two sides to the interference mitigation equation. First, a transmitting device must not bleed signal into adjacent bands and thus cause interference. You can mitigate this by using strong filters. The other side is that a receiving device must reject interference from adjacent bands. Of course as we saw from the Lightsquared debacle, the interference rejection part does not always get enforced.

Interference to the PCS A downlink. That is ostensibly the reason for the lower power levels.

I wonder why they don't also impose the requirement on the downlink for PCS A to reject out of band emissions

It would seem that between the power limitations and the fact that other bidders will have to reimburse Sprint, it would make PCS H a relatively inexpensive bid for Sprint.