Clearwire in deep financial trouble, may not survive
Paul Kapustka, MuniWireless, 11/4/2010 Clearwire announced yesterday that it may run out of money in mid-2011 and may not be able to continue as a “going concern”. This is an analysis of Clearwire’s challenges as it struggles to survive. It really is the best of times and worst of times for nascent national WiMAX provider [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Clearwire, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, WiMax
Smart wireless networks to the rescue
Marguerite Reardon, CNET News, 10/19/2010 Wireless operators are adding more smarts to their networks to ensure the flood of new smartphones, tablets, and other wireless connected gadgets don’t overwhelm them. Equipment suppliers gathering here this week at 4G World to discuss the next generation of wireless network infrastructure are working not only to help wireless [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Cisco, Clearwire, Femtocell, HSPA, LTE, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiFi, WiMax
Verizon takes MiFi global with Fivespot
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 10/4/2010 Verizon Wireless customers will be able to link their Wi-Fi devices to the Internet via 3G mobile networks in more than 120 countries with the Fivespot portable hotspot, set to go on sale Thursday. But globetrotting with it won’t be cheap. Like Verizon’s MiFi 2200, the Fivespot is a [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Clearwire, EDGE, GSM, Hotspot, MiFi, Verizon, WiFi
Clearwire eyes debt as part of new funding
Sinead Carew, Reuters, 9/23/2010 Clearwire Corp expects its next funding round to be debt with an equity investment from a company such as T-Mobile USA or money from a wireless spectrum sale, its chief executive said on Thursday. Clearwire, a wireless venture that is majority owned by Sprint Nextel Corp, is in negotiations for additional [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Clearwire, Sprint, T-Mobile, WiMax
Hedge Fund Manager Falcone’s Big Bet On Wireless Broadband
Tricia Duryee, MocoNews.net, 8/27/2010 Investors in the Harbinger’s hedge fund are increasingly uncomfortable with Philip Facone’s obsession with building a high-speed wireless broadband network. Falcone, who got rich by out-smarting the subprime housing bubble, has committed roughly $3 billion or 40 percent of the fund’s assets to LightSquared, making the telecom company the hedge fund’s [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone
Clearwire Introduces iSpot
Clearwire, Mobile Tech News, 8/5/2010 Clearwire Corporation, a leading provider of wireless broadband services and operator of the largest 4G network in the country, today announced the introduction of the CLEAR iSpot(TM), a personal hotspot with dedicated support for Apple’s line of mobile devices*, including the iPad(TM), iPod touch(R) and iPhone(R). The iSpot brings the [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, Clearwire, Hotspot, WiFi
WiMax backer Clearwire to start LTE trials
Sam Diaz, CNET news, 8/5/2010 Clearwire announced plans Thursday to start trial testing 4G LTE technology this fall. The move will not only allow the company to showcase the capabilities of the technology but also allow it to “examine a variety of potential future technology combinations.” The tests will be conducted through early 2011 in [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, Clearwire, LTE, WiMax
Wireless broadband network set to launch next year
Peter Svensson, Newsvine, 7/20/2010 U.S. consumers and businesses may get more options in wireless service starting next year, with the launch of a new wireless broadband network that aims to provide competition to the incumbent phone companies. Private-equity firm Harbinger Capital Partners on Tuesday revealed details of the launch of its wireless network, LightSquared, which [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, FCC, Motorola, Nokia, Sprint, Verizon
Intel’s Losing Big Money on WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 6/28/2010 Two WiMAX networks backed by Intel have failed, delivering a blow to the WiMAX standard, but also to Intel and its venture capital arm. Intel, which has invested billions in WiMAX networks in order to encourage the spread of the technology and boost demand for the company’s chips, has already had [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, Clearwire, LTE, WiMax
The Big Shift: Moving to LTE From WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 5/30/2010 If WiMAX is a fad — a short-term bridge on the path to LTE as the global fourth-generation wireless standard — how will operators move from one network technology to another? Russian WiMAX provider Yota said last week that it would stop deploying WiMAX networks and switch instead to LTE for [...]