[Hen] "WiMAX is a disruptive technology that will be used to expand the availability and affordability of mobile broadband, where LTE and HSPA are designed to ensure a smooth and cost effective evolution from 3G to 4G for today's leading mobile operators."

Johnson, Bill bjohnson at onenet.net
Wed Dec 3 08:54:38 CST 2008 

"WiMAX is a disruptive technology that will be used to expand the
availability and affordability of mobile broadband, where LTE and HSPA
are designed to ensure a smooth and cost effective evolution from 3G to
4G for today's leading mobile operators."

 

Bill 

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December 2, 2008: Clearwire's Thanksgiving feast; India auctions get the
greenlight

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Clearwire could take a little while to digest its Thanksgiving feast:
Sprint's Xohm network. The WiMAX network operator officially gobbled up
Sprint's Xohm assets and finally pocketed the $3.2 billion investment
from Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House Networks, Intel and Google.
Despite the size of its meal, Clearwire has no time for napping, CEO Ben
Wolff hosted a brief media call on Monday to clear up a few issues
surrounding the new Clearwire. Here are the highlights:

*	Clearwire is not a joint venture between Clearwire and Sprint
Nextel. It is it's own company with an independent management team and
independent board of directors.
*	Clearwire may favor WiMAX networking technology right now but it
will ensure that it's network is "future-proof" in case it needs to add
LTE or switch to that technology. 
*	Xohm will not be the brand for Clearwire's services moving
forward: Clear will be. The tagline for the service will be "Let's Be
Clear." 

"Even after taking $3.2 billion from investors, Clearwire will have a
funding gap of $2.6 billion, which will need to be obtained through
additional equity and debt," Yankee Group's Chief Strategy Officer Berge
Ayvazian said. "I believe this investment should allow Clearwire to fund
the current phase of the build out through yearend 2011, but additional
capital will be needed to complete the network in 2011-2014. The new
Clearwire needs to be debt-worthy to secure additional investments to
bridge that gap in the middle of a global financial crisis with even
worse conditions for raising new funding. "

Ayvazian noted that Yankee Group research supports Ben Wolff's
assessment that WiMAX and LTE have much in common as 4G technologies, by
virtue of their use of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access
(OFDMA) modulation and advanced antenna technology such as MIMO), beam
forming and beam steering. "But WiMAX is a disruptive technology that
will be used to expand the availability and affordability of mobile
broadband, where LTE and HSPA are designed to ensure a smooth and cost
effective evolution from 3G to 4G for today's leading mobile operators."

To read more about Clearwire's announcement, check out the press release
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Trendsmedia/809cf1edc2/23df7e6f6d/b9ac90d137/c=
214419&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1231029&highlight=> . 

Also, check out this week's WiMAX Watch by Rethink Research's Caroline
Gabriel: Indian 3G and WiMAX auctions get green light for new year
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Trendsmedia/809cf1edc2/23df7e6f6d/0e3127cca9> .

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At last, the Indian government has given the green light to the much
delayed auction of 3G and WiMAX licenses, and the process should start
this week and be completed by late February. The process will be
overseen by NM Rothschild and Sons and is likely to spark a wave of
capex investment across the subcontinent, and almost certainly create
the largest WiMAX market in the world within two years.
 
The deadline for applications is December 31, and the WiMAX auction will
begin on January 16 2009, and the 3G sale on February 9, a slight change
from the previous plan to conduct both sales simultaneously. The
Department of Telecom (DoT) is planning to auction five blocks of
spectrum for 3G and four for WiMAX in each telecoms region or 'circle'.
At least two CDMA operators will be able to offer 3G services in each
license area, a relief to this community, which was concerned it would
be excluded or that its licenses would be awarded later than those to
GSM operators. Spectrum for EV-DO data services will be auctioned in the
450MHz and 800MHz bands, and eventually in the 1.9GHz band.  
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The merger of Clearwire and Sprint's Xohm network has crossed its last
hurdle, with Clearwire shareholders voting to approve the deal. The
companies expect to finalize the details by year end, which would then
bring the in the $3.2B infusion of capital from Intel, Google and three
cable partners.
 
Although the two key entitities have had to operate as separately as
possible for legal reasons until the merger was official, many of their
joint strategies have become clear, and in addition to Xohm's launch
market in Baltimore, construction is well underway in six other
territories: Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Portland,
Oregon and Grand Rapids, Michigan (the last of these subject to settling
a legal dispute with Sprint affiliate iPCS, currently on hold but still
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Broad adoption of WiMAX networks and the fulfillment of the WiMAX
"vision" greatly depend on the proliferation of WiMAX chipsets into
battery operated mobile devices, including handsets, ultra mobile PCs
and a variety of consumer electronic devices.  One gating factor had
been the power consumption of the WiMAX subsystem which puts a drain on
batteries.  The WiMAX chipset ecosystem has made great strides in this
area.  But have they met the "low power bar" necessary for wide adoption
of WiMAX into mobile devices?  

Trendsmedia, the organizers of the WiMAX World 2008 show, which took
place in Chicago, USA on September 30 through October 2nd 2008 wanted to
find out.  WiMAX20/20, a leading WiMAX consultancy was recruited to
organize the WiMAX Live - Low Power CPE Chipset Shootout.  A first in
the WiMAX industry, this session gave an opportunity to WiMAX chipset
vendors to show live measurements of their low power solutions and
explain how they are meeting the low power challenge.  Among the
merchant chipset vendors that were invited to the shootout were Altair,
Beceem, Comsys, GCT, Intel, NextWave, Runcom, Sequans, and WaveSAT.  

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December 2, 2008

Canadian wireless pioneer Ted Rogers dies; Noted for Inikshuk, Canada's
largest WiMAX deployment
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tory.aspx?guid=%7B9B4B85C5-8390-4F7A-B34A-FDA52E46A23B%7D

December 2, 2008

Canada grants Craig Wireless a WiMAX license
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December 2, 2008

Romania awards WiMAX license to SNR
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November 26, 2008

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November 25, 2008

Alvarion: 60 commercial deployments in 30 African countries
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November 25, 2008

Analyst: Mexico's 3G and WiMAX auctions to slip into 2009
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November 24, 2008

3G Americas: 100M new UMTS/HSPA subs in last year
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-months/2008-11-23
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November 24, 2008

NextWave is in dire straits?
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