Is it really fall? We can't say for certain that this is what Dan Hesse was dealing with to when he told us face-to-face that being sensational would be coming our way a bit later in the year, but Clearwire definitely just announced its intent to add "LTE Advanced-ready" robotics to its 4G network. In what'll likely go down as the most monstrous mobile news this side of the draft T-Mobile / AT&T merger, America's biggest WiMAX fan has finally caved to the realities of the next-gen cell jingle war: LTE's winning, and it's picking up all sorts of steam. Verizon cellular phone has been general public hall out LTE at a breakneck pace, and soon enough, Ma Bell (and presumably, T-Mo will be coming suit. by the numbers to the bizarrely worded release, Clearwire will be leveraging "deep radio-frequency visible spectrum capital and an all-IP network to meet long-term mobile broadband demands." Translation? An "unmatched LTE network" capable of serving current and future
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We're told that the initial LTE rollout will target "high-demand areas of current 4G markets," taking vantage of current 4G support in order to reduce expenditures. For those curious about test rates, you can look forward to run speeds exceeding 120Mbps (or so it says). In a telling quote, Dr. John Saw, Clearwire's Chief scientific know-how Officer, confesses:

"This is the future of mobile broadband. Our great trial has clearly shown that our 'LTE Advanced-ready' network design, which leverages our deep electromagnetic radio-frequency spectrum with wide channels, can achieve far greater speeds and extent than any other network that exists today. Clearwire is the only carrier with the unencumbered radio-frequency electromagnetic spectrum attache case sine qua non to achieve this level of speed and holding ability in the United States. In addition, the 2.5GHz radio-frequency visible spectrum band in which we operate is widely allocated universal




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No doubt, that closer there is a direct shot at the dilemmas faced by LightSquared -- a company that Sprint above all just inked a company deal with. It's hard to envision how this unholy love triangle's going to play out, but the company's making it quite clear that its LTE network will be "LTE-Advanced-ready," enabling it to have a leg-up on the laggards here in the States. The dirty little secret in all of this is that Clearwire's still waiting on "additional funding" to fully mechanism its LTE desires, which involve the use of multicarrier, or multichannel, wideband radios that will be carrier aggregation capable. As you'd likely expect, the company closed with a restatement of its support to the current WiMAX network, but it's nearly a attestation that you've seen the last spread effort on that one. In case you've been looking the other way, Clearwire hasn't produced plans for a new WiMAX market in all of 2011. Now you know why.

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