Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
All I can hope for is that Clearwire makes the right decision and says no to this offer. Not because it’s not a good offer (heck, offer me $2.1 billion and see what I will do), but because it would put to end what has become one of the most compelling (sad) soap operas (reality shows) going in the wireless space.
Few companies can’t wait for “tomorrow” as much as Clearwire, which released third quarter results late yesterday highlighting the fact that come this time next year things should be better. Those better days will include the planned launch of TD-LTE services using the carrier’s...
Sprint Nextel expanded its support of mobile virtual network operators with the launch of its Mobile Broadband on Demand service that will allow partners to rent devices compatible with the carrier’s 3G and WiMAX-based networks to consumers. The carrier noted the offering is targeted...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
WiMAX is not dead. At least in Peru, where the national firm Olo has launched mobile Internet services using WiMAX. It is offering prepaid mobile data services in the Lima capital area.
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News reports noted that Olo...
Time Warner Cable says it will unload its investment in Clearwire by selling its 46.4 million shares, valued at roughly $65 million based on the current market value of Clearwire's stock.
Mobile data agitators look set to again unleash some disruptive-ness onto the cellular space, with reports going wild over a pair of companies unveiling new offerings.
One offering is from FreedomPop, which plans to begin offering a “sleeve” product that can provide WiMAX and LTE...
Clearwire reported second quarter financial results highlighted by drastic cost-cutting measures as the carrier continues to de-emphasize its current WiMAX operations in favor of its planned roll out of TD-LTE services expected next year.
These moves seemed to enthuse investors as Clearwire’s stock (CLWR)...
Clearwire nabbed another wholesale partner announcing a deal to host Jolt Mobile’s prepaid wireless service. The current agreement calls for Jolt to add Clearwire’s WiMAX mobile broadband offering to its service structure. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
Clearwire’s current WiMAX network covers...
The rumor of WiMAX’s demise may have been a bit premature, at least to the folks at NewNet. The firm, which picked up Nokia Siemen’s WiMAX business last year, a unit that was previously acquired from Motorola Solutions for $1.2 billion, said it plans...
NEW ORLEANS – Sprint Nextel has been hammered from all sides for poor decision making in the past, but you have to give this beleaguered carrier credit for at least attempting to right some of those questionable turns. More impressively – or foolishly –...
The domestic prepaid space gained a new entrant today as Prepayd Wireless threw its hat into the ultra-competitive market touting no-contract services running across Sprint Nextel’s CDMA network and Clearwire’s WiMAX network.
The carrier, which is a sister company of prepaid credit card provider Bank...
Clearwire (CLWR) said it will launch its TDD-LTE network across 31 cities during the first half of 2013, including New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. The carrier noted that the deployment will target what it termed “high demand ‘hot zones’”...
With the nation’s three largest wireless operators now having posted first quarter results, No. 3 Sprint Nextel appears to have pulled off a bit of a coup by adding more subscribers to its network than its two larger rivals.
Sprint Nextel said it added 1.08...
Although it seems to be a complex market, in many ways the Mexican telecom sector is very similar to the others Latin American countries. Prepaid penetration is much higher than postpaid services – Mexico government regulator Cofetel reported there were 83.3 million prepaid customers...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Back in September 2007, Venezuelan pay-tv company Movilmax started to provide WiMAX access to people in Caracas, the country’s capital. After having attracted 10,000 subscribers to the service, the company plans to migrate the network to LTE technology and expand...
Sprint Nextel’s (S) LTE plans look to be drawing ever closer as the carrier today provided a sale date for its second LTE-enabled device ahead of an expected launch by mid-year.
The carrier said the previously announced Samsung Galaxy Nexus would be available...
Clearwire (CLWR) continued to show its transformative nature during the fourth quarter as the carrier’s results showed increasing reliance on its wholesale operations, currently dominated by parent company Sprint Nextel (S), while its future plans have been bolstered to support a move into the...
FreedomPop, the wireless broadband startup backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, says it will buy wholesale broadband service from Clearwire instead of from LightSquared. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that LightSquared cannot move forward with its effort to provide wholesale mobile broadband as...
Clearwire (CLWR) said it accumulated a company record $362 million in revenues during the fourth quarter of last year, which was more than double the amount posted during the final three months of 2010 and slightly ahead of analyst estimates.
The company noted that revenues...
The wireless industry has settled on a single interface for 4G networks, LTE. Gone are the holy wars, first pitting GSM against CDMA; then W-CDMA against EV-DO; and finally HSPA/LTE against WiMAX.
We expect to see some traction on the TD-LTE front in India in the second half of 2012. Maravedis forecasts that the TD-LTE subscriber base in India will reach 2.25 million by the end of 2012. RIL, a pan-India license holder, is expected to lead the market in terms of the number of TD-LTE subscribers with a 62% market share in 2012.
