We go out and we piece together over the next seven or eight months a WCS spectrum position that is 30 MHz of fallow, unused spectrum.
Meanwhile, Verizon has bolstered its spectrum position by securing all the approvals it needed to acquire a swathe of AWS spectrum from the cable companies.
Clearwire has been scorned by U.S. investors who denigrate its 2.5 Ghz spectrum position.
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If Softbank is after spectrum, the entity with the juicy spectrum position is Clearwire.
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This whole deal is about Clearwire and its V A S T spectrum position.
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Going forward, not one of these plans makes any sense at all without the depth and breadth of the Clearwire spectrum position.
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Son successfully built a system in Japan using that same spectrum position.
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Now Charlie Ergen's DISH and Google's secretive efforts to test out 2.5 Ghz frequency activities point to the true value in Clearwire's rich spectrum position.
Because Clearwire has such a fat spectrum position, it can optimize the use of the channels it has been allotted to carry traffic in the most efficient possible way.
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While there are limitations in using higher bandwidth spectrum in terms of penetrating buildings and covering large geographic areas, Clearwire controls a bigger spectrum position that almost any U.S. company.
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The first thing Hesse insisted loudly and persistently at the time of the deal announcement was that Son had no interest in Clearwire and its huge 2.5 GHz spectrum position.
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Masayoshi Son of Softbank, made a bid for Sprint, most likely to gain control of the vast Clearwire spectrum position almost but not quite controlled by Sprint at that moment.
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His bid is actually for 70% of Sprint which in turn holds about half the ownership of Clearwire, that spectrum position assembled by Craig McCaw at 2.5 Ghz. some years ago.
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We understand fully the value of that spectrum position.
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Because of the size of his remaining holdings, he still will profit handsomely if there is a successful sale of either Clearwire or its very valuable spectrum position which is worth far more than the current value of the company.
Crest has filed more papers wherever it can think of to file them and became an ongoing irritant to Sprint in its efforts to stuff Clearwire shareholders with a gross underbid for the value of its vast spectrum position.
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It seems clear to me that using the extensive Clearwire spectrum position after it is upgraded to LTE TDD, Sprint will have an exceptionally robust network on which to operate any smart phone offering either it or Clearwire is likely to deploy in coming years.
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And who, whatever their position on the political spectrum, could begrudge them that?
This would transform our national spectrum scarcity position into one of abundance.
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To date they have been in a disadvantaged position due to their lack of spectrum.
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During a speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles this spring, McCain tried to position himself in the middle of that spectrum.
Clearwire's spectrum, when combined with Sprint's, will provide Sprint with an enhanced spectrum portfolio that will strengthen its position and increase competitiveness in the U.S. wireless industry.
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It has misrepresented the position of mainstream American Jewish groups on the ideological spectrum.
Then it learned it might not actually wind up with the spectrum which had been pledged as collateral to bondholders and reversed position.
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"Our position is that we would like to study the issues - and proposed spectrum allocations - for a while, " this member of the U.S. delegation replied.
That spectrum is critical to any third player having a strong long term position in the United States.
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"Sprint's position on the H Block would render useless 25 percent of DISH's uplink spectrum -- so that Sprint is positioned to merely gain the exact same amount of spectrum, " said Blum.
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