Is it really fall? We will not say for certain that this is what Dan Hesse was touching on when he told us face-to-face that something spectacular will be coming our way a bit of later within the year, but Clearwire definitely just announced its intent so as to add “LTE Advanced-ready” technology to its 4G network. In what’ll likely go down because the most shocking mobile news this side of the proposed T-Mobile / AT&T merger , America’s biggest WiMAX fan has finally caved to the realities of the subsequent-gen wireless war: LTE’s winning, and it’s picking up every kind of steam. Verizon Wireless have been building out LTE at a breakneck pace, and shortly enough, Ma Bell (and presumably, T-Mob) can be following suit. In step with the bizarrely worded release, Clearwire might be leveraging “deep spectrum resources and an all-IP network to fulfill long-term mobile broadband demands.” Translation? An “unmatched LTE network” in a position to serving current and future wholesale / retail customers.
We’re told that the initial LTE rollout will target “high-demand areas of current 4G markets,” benefiting from existing 4G infrastructure so one can reduce expenditures. For those excited by transmission rates, that you could stay up for download speeds exceeding 120Mbps (or so it says). In a telling quote, Dr. John Saw, Clearwire’s Chief Technology Officer, confesses:
“Here is the way forward for mobile broadband. Our extensive trial has clearly shown that our ‘LTE Advanced-ready’ network design, which leverages our deep spectrum with wide channels, can achieve far greater speeds and capacity than some other network that exists today. Clearwire is the single carrier with the unencumbered spectrum portfolio required to realize this level of speed and capacity within the U.s.. As well as, the two.5GHz spectrum band where we operate is widely allocated worldwide for 4G deployments, enabling a potentially robust, good value and global ecosystem which can serve billions of devices. And, since we currently support millions of shoppers within the 2.5 GHz band, we all know that our LTE network won’t present harmful interference issues with GPS or other sensitive spectrum bands.”
Undoubtedly, that closer there’s a direct shot on the dilemmas faced by LightSquared — a corporation that Sprint curiously just inked a partnership deal with. It’s hard to examine how this unholy love triangle’s going to play out, however the company’s making it quite clear that its LTE network may be ” LTE-Advanced -ready,” enabling it to have a leg-up at the laggards here inside the States. The dirty little secret in all of here’s that Clearwire’s still waiting on “additional funding” to completely implement its LTE desires, which involve the usage of multicarrier, or multichannel, wideband radios which will be carrier aggregation capable. As you’d likely expect, the corporate closed with a restatement of its support to the present WiMAX network, but it’s practically a ensure that you’ve seen the last expansion effort on that one. In case you have been looking the wrong way, Clearwire hasn’t fired up a single new WiMAX market in all of 2011. Now you realize why.
* Company Will Leverage Deep Spectrum Resources and All-IP Network to satisfy Long-Term Mobile Broadband Demands
* Unmatched LTE Network Able to Serving Current and Future Wholesale and Retail Customers
* Initial LTE Rollout Will Target High-Demand Areas of Current 4G Markets, Leverage Existing 4G Infrastructure for Minimal Capital Expense
* Download Speeds Exceed 120 Mbps in Successful Network Technology Trial
* Support for WiMAX 4G Network Technology to Continue
KIRKLAND, Wash, Aug. 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clearwire Corporation (Nasdaq:CLWR), a number one provider of 4G wireless broadband services inside the Usa, today announced its intent so as to add “LTE Advanced-ready” technology to its 4G network. The announcement follows the successful completion of 4G technology trials that achieved download speeds exceeding 120 Mbps and demonstrated the potential for Clearwire’s unmatched spectrum advantage.
The initial implementation of Clearwire’s LTE network would target densely populated, urban areas of Clearwire’s existing 4G markets where current 4G usage demands are high. The robust all-IP infrastructure already deployed in these markets may be leveraged to serve the company’s LTE needs, delivering significant capital cost savings in comparison with the same overlay by other carriers of an existing 3G architecture.
“Clearwire plans to elevate the bar again for mobile broadband service within the U.s.,” said John Stanton, Clearwire’s Chairman and interim CEO. “Our leadership in launching 4G services forced a primary change within the competitive mobile data landscape. Now, we plan to bring our considerable spectrum portfolio to bear to deliver an LTE network able to meeting the long run demands of the market.”
“This is often the way forward for mobile broadband,” said Dr. John Saw, Clearwire’s Chief Technology Officer. “Our extensive trial has clearly shown that our ‘LTE Advanced-ready’ network design, which leverages our deep spectrum with wide channels, can achieve far greater speeds and capacity than another network that exists today. Clearwire is the only real carrier with the unencumbered spectrum portfolio required to attain this level of speed and capacity inside the Usa.”
“Further, the two.5 GHz spectrum band within which we operate is widely allocated worldwide for 4G deployments, enabling a potentially robust, economical and global ecosystem which can serve billions of devices,” Saw added. “We anticipate that the economies of scale derived from this global ecosystem will act as a catalyst for the improvement of thousands of low-cost devices and applications. And, since we currently support millions of consumers inside the 2.5 GHz band, we all know that our LTE network won’t present harmful interference issues with GPS or other sensitive spectrum bands.”
Clearwire also noted that since launching its first 4G market in 2009, video has become the biggest component to the company’s overall data traffic and video traffic itself has increased greater than tenfold since 2009. The corporate believes that as more video-intensive smartphones and services rise, so will the purposes for Clearwire’s high-capacity 4G wholesale network.
LTE Advanced is a 4G technical standard that requires peak download mobile speeds of at the very least 100 Mbps, which far exceeds today’s commercial networks. Clearwire’s LTE network would be “LTE Advanced-ready” meaning that it’ll use an ultra-high-capacity spectrum configuration it is superior to the common configuration of the slower, more capacity-constrained commercial LTE network designs within the Usa of today.
Clearwire’s LTE implementation plan, that’s subject to additional funding, contemplates deploying Time Division Duplex (TDD) LTE technology and reusing its flexible all-IP network architecture and upgrading base station radios and a few core network elements, which offers significant capital savings. This can include using multicarrier, or multichannel, wideband radios that allows you to be carrier aggregation capable. Carrier aggregation is a key feature of LTE Advanced that allows you to enable Clearwire to further leverage its vast spectrum depth to create larger “fat pipes” for deploying mobile broadband service. The network would position Clearwire because the clear leader in 4G mobile broadband technology, in a position to serving the present and anticipated future demands of wholesale and retail customers.
Clearwire, in conjunction with probably the most largest wireless carriers on this planet, is a founding member of the worldwide TDD LTE Initiative (GTI) which aims to collect leading industry partners to influence the TDD LTE ecosystem as a chief standard in mobile broadband technology and drive the construction of next generation mobile broadband networks. Member companies that currently support greater than a thousand million subscribers on their networks believe that an international LTE standard has the capability to realize significant economies of scale and serve hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide.
Clearwire also restated its commitment to its existing 4G WiMAX network, which covers approximately 132 million people while serving 7.65 million retail and wholesale customers and an ecosystem of nearly 110 WiMAX enabled devices, including all 4G phones currently offered by Sprint. Clearwire expects to finish 2011 with approximately 10 million 4G customers.
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