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Today's Top Stories
1. Clearwire could delay part of its TD-LTE rollout, may bid adieu to Comcast
2. LightSquared floats plan to use weather-balloon spectrum for LTE
3. Redknee share sale could set stage for M&A
4. Europe's BuNGee project achieves 1 Gbps throughput
5. Comcast activates thousands of California Wi-Fi hotspots Also Noted: Ruckus
Spotlight On... Virgin Media's LTE small cell trials set up wholesale strategy
Alcatel-Lucent, Sub 10 Systems sign pact; Chicago issues RFI for public Wi-Fi and much more... What happened to the 'spectrum crunch?'
 Remember the "spectrum crunch?" The FCC and its chairman, Julius Genachowski, have for years been hitting on the theme that the U.S. is dangerously close to running out of spectrum for mobile broadband, which is why the FCC's 2010 national broadband plan calls for freeing up 300 MHz of new spectrum for mobile broadband in five years and 500 MHz in 10 years. The CTIA has been making the same argument. But is the spectrum crunch still real? Was it ever? FierceWireless has more. Editor's Corner
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* General ad info: Click here | Today's Top News 1. Clearwire could delay part of its TD-LTE rollout, may bid adieu to Comcast
Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) might delay part of its TD-LTE deployment over the next nine months and may also be losing another investor, according to a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. The SEC filing reiterated Clearwire's long-standing plan to wrap up by end-June 2013 its phase one deployment of TD-LTE sites over 5,000 existing WiMAX sites in densely populated urban areas. Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) is Clearwire's largest wholesale customer and shareholder and plans to use Clearwire's TD-LTE network to augment its own FDD-based LTE service. Clearwire said in its SEC filing that in addition to the 5,000 selected sites it will also "consider sites in other areas where Sprint and other current and future wholesale partners express a need for excess data capacity and where we believe we will be most likely to generate sufficient revenues." However, the company also appeared to give itself an out in case it runs behind schedule. "Our agreements with Sprint also provide flexibility to modify the pace of our LTE deployment and remain eligible for the full amount of LTE prepayments from Sprint. As such, in order to better align our capital expenditures with the receipt of expected LTE revenues, we are currently evaluating our plans and may elect to delay a portion of our deployment schedule accordingly," said Clearwire's filing. The company did not share details regarding where or when those delays might occur. Clearwire says it has sufficient cash to fund its near-term liquidity needs through at least June 30, 2013. Over the long-term, the mobile broadband operator hopes to overlay 8,000 of its existing WiMAX sites with TD-LTE over 20 MHz-wide channels. Clearwire CFO Hope Cochran recently said construction of the company's TD-LTE network will pick up significantly this quarter. The operator intends to make use of vendor financing for its LTE network buildout, and will announce its vendors next month. Meanwhile, it appears Clearwire may see another early investor heading for the door. The company's Sept. 27 SEC filing to sell Time Warner's full 7.8 percent stake--proceeds from which will go to Time Warner rather than Clearwire--noted Comcast has exchanged all of its Clearwire Class B common stock and Class B common units into 88.5 million share of free-trading Class A shares. "We have not received any notice from Comcast exercising their right to effect an offering," said Clearwire. Yet while Comcast has not requested a registered offering for the stake, "it is certainly possible that they might be right behind Time Warner in the exit aisle," said Forbes. Time Warner said the sale of its Clearwire shares is appropriate give the recent spectrum sale and commercial agreements initiated between mobile operator Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) and Time Warner, Comcast and Bright House Networks. Under the terms of the companies' deals, the cable companies can become MVNOs of Verizon's service. Comcast and Time Warner stopped reselling Clearwire's mobile WiMAX service earlier this year. Comcast's holdings represent some 6 percent of the Clearwire's outstanding Class A common stock and Class B common stock. Sprint Nextel beneficially owns some 48 percent of the outstanding voting power as of Sept. 21, said Clearwire. Clearwire's shares dropped on Friday after the company made the SEC filing to sell off Time Warner's stake. The cable TV company is freeing itself of all 46.4 million Class A Clearwire shares it holds. Time Warner's shares were offered to Clearwire's other investors first, but with no takers the shares were put on the public market. Time Warner invested $550 million in Clearwire in Nov. 2008. Based on Clearwire's Friday closing stock price of $1.34, Time Warner's stake has plummeted to less than $62.2 million for a $487.80 million loss on its initial investment. For more:
- see this Clearwire filing
- see this Bloomberg Businessweek article
- see this Forbes article
- see this Wireless Week article Related articles:
Clearwire to start major TDD-LTE network construction in Q4
Time Warner Cable to sell 7.8% stake in Clearwire
FCC approves Verizon's $3.9B AWS purchase, T-Mobile spectrum swap
Clearwire CFO: WiMAX network to generate more revenue than expected
Clearwire: Sprint's iDEN shutdown to affect 'small number' of co-located WiMAX sites
Clearwire stays on track for TDD-LTE launch, defends financial position Read more about: SEC
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2. LightSquared floats plan to use weather-balloon spectrum for LTE
LightSquared is proposing to share spectrum the federal government uses for weather balloons. The company hopes to couple this spectrum with the L-Band satellite spectrum LightSquared already holds in an attempt to finally get its planned wholesale LTE network up and running. Bankrupt LightSquared approached the FCC with a proposal under which the company would combine the 5 MHz it uses for satellite service at 1670-1675 MHz with frequencies in the 1675-1680 MHz band, currently used by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration weather balloons, said PCWorld. The company would share the NOAA spectrum rather than gaining exclusive rights to it. Such an arrangement would give the company 10 MHz for downstream LTE traffic. The company would employ another pair of bands totaling 20 MHz--which it uses for satellite services now--for LTE traffic going upstream from users' mobile devices, said PCWorld. The total 30 MHz of spectrum would be 10 MHz less than LightSquared had intended to use for its LTE network. LightSquared is licensed for MSS operation in portions of the 1525-1544 MHz and 1545-1559 MHz downlink bands and the 1626.5-1645.5 MHz and 1646.5-1660.5 MHz uplink bands. LightSquared's spectrum in the 1525-1559 MHz block sits below spectrum allocated for GPS. Most GPS devices are not designed to ignore out-of-band signals, such as those produced by LightSquared's proposed network, which led the FCC to cancel LightSquared's conditional waiver for terrestrial service earlier this year. The company also filed a rulemaking petition under which it would hold onto all of its L-Band spectrum but forego deploying service on the 10 MHz that have been shown to cause GPS interference, at least until the FCC can conduct a rulemaking process that could eventually open the door for that spectrum's use for terrestrial service. The filings come at a critical time for LightSquared, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May and is expected to ask U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman today to extend the amount of time it has for filing a reorganization plan without the threat of rival proposals from disgruntled lenders until at least next summer, said the Wall Street Journal. Even if the judge grants the exclusivity request, hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone, who still controls the wireless venture, could face more legal battles from lenders early next year is he cannot show progress in solving LightSquared's regulatory quandary. In a late September hearing on Capitol Hill, several lawmakers accused the FCC of rushing to judgment in Jan. 2011 when it approved LightSquared's request to use its spectrum for a wireless broadband network. The commission subsequently yanked LightSquared's conditional waiver in February after deciding the company's planned service would cause too much interference to GPS equipment. The company is in "regulatory limbo" since it lost its regulatory waiver, and "its 40 megahertz of spectrum is left unused in a time when demand for wireless service and broadband is exploding," said Representative Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), chairman of the investigations subcommittee of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. Stearns, who called LightSquared's technology "a game-changer," appeared to press FCC officials to find a way to save the company. Julius Knapp, chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology, told legislators at the hearing that the commission is reexamining the LightSquared situation. "LightSquared has put some new ideas on the table, and we think everything is worth considering at this point," he said in comments made prior to LightSquared's official proposal and petition for rulemaking. Intriguingly, LightSquared's proposal and petition to the FCC were submitted on the same day the commission announced plans to review and update its satellite licensing rules, which may or may not have been prompted by the LightSquared saga. Among other things, the notice of proposed rulemaking includes proposals that would "shift from a 'tell us how you built it' approach to a 'tell us how you avoid interference with your neighbors' approach," said the FCC. For more:
- see this Wall Street Journal article (sub. req.)
- see this PCWorld article
- see this Engadget article
- see this Bloomberg Businessweek article
- see this FCC release
- see this SpacePolicyOnline article Related articles:
Lawmakers grill FCC officials on LightSquared's fate
FCC defends granting conditional waiver to LightSquared
LightSquared promotes Doug Smith to CEO, chairman slot
LightSquared in negotiations with creditors to avert liquidation
LightSquared files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
LightSquared to pay Inmarsat $56.3M, delays further payments until 2014
Lawmakers press FCC to give LightSquared new spectrum
LightSquared to FCC: 'We are not going away' Read more about: L band, Chapter 11, Bankruptcy
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3. Redknee share sale could set stage for M&A
Redknee is offering 13 million common shares to raise nearly $17.83 million, which could be used for potential acquisitions in the billing and customer care arena. The Toronto-based company signed up a syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities and including Canaccord Genuity and TD Securities for the sale, which is priced at C$1.35 per common share to aggregate gross proceeds to Redknee of slightly less than $17.83 million. In announcing the sale, Redknee said the net proceeds would be used for "working capital and general corporate purposes and potential acquisitions." LightReading suggested the company might be interested in acquiring at least some of the business support systems (BSS) business that Nokia Siemens Networks wants to sell off. In early September, NSN CEO Rajeev Suri confirmed that vendor is in talks with various companies to sell its (BSS) unit as part of its restructuring. Redknee's share offering is expected to close on or about Oct. 23, 2012. Redknee also disclosed a multimillion-dollar, multiyear deal under which it will provide cloud-based converged billing and customer care as a fully managed, software-as-a-service offering to Step Up Mobile, a U.S.-based mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) launching on the Sprint 3G and LTE networks. Redknee's pre-integrated billing and customer care platform is built on the Microsoft platform, which includes Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SQL Server and Windows Server. The OSS/BSS sector is seeing an uptick in M&A activity. Last week Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC) added to its portfolio by reaching an agreement to purchase Toronto-based ConceptWave for an undisclosed amount. For more:
- see this LightReading article
- see this Redknee release Related articles:
UPDATED: Ericsson adds to OSS/BSS portfolio with ConceptWave acquisition
Nokia Siemens CEO Suri confirms desire to sell BSS unit
Rumor Mill: NSN selling Business Support Services unit Read more about: Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks
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4. Europe's BuNGee project achieves 1 Gbps throughput
The BuNGee gigabit mobile network project, conceived to achieve a tenfold increase in mobile broadband infrastructure capacity and an economically viable business case, was successfully wrapped up following a final review meeting with the European Commission. The $6 million (€4.7 million) Beyond Next Generation (BuNGee) project was funded primarily by the European Commission as part of the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7). Participants were charged with developing ways to economically improve wireless network capacity in urban areas where the number of users per square kilometer and the mobile data usage factor is dramatically growing. "The developed technologies will be proposed as new standards for high-capacity radio access networks, mainly to ETSI BRAN and IEEE 802.16 and/or LTE-Advanced, to maximize the exploitation benefits in Europe and globally," according to the EC. Consortium members working on the initiative included lead partner Alvarion, based in Israel, along with Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas (UK); Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain); University of York (UK); Thales Communications SA (France); Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (Poland); Siklu Communication Ltd (Israel); and ARTTIC (Belgium). According to Alvarion, the consortium held a successful demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel during April 2012 to show the project's main goals, including higher throughput, innovative deployment strategies and an economically viable business case. "At the live demonstration, Alvarion and the consortium partners successfully demonstrated the project-developed high-capacity radio cell prototype in a real urban mobile environment," said the company, which coordinated the project with a leading role in designing the innovative system architecture. "The current next-generation technologies LTE and WiMAX support a mere 100 Mbps per square kilometer in a regular cellular deployment. In dense urban areas, where the market demand for wireless broadband access is the highest, the BuNGee project demonstrated a higher throughput of 1 Gbps per square kilometer. This demonstration was imperative in confirming a commercially viable solution for wide-scale uptake of next-generation technologies," said Alvarion. The BuNGee initiative was announced in January 2010. Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas--one of the consortium's members--said in April 2010 that the project's success would hinge upon achieving the correct antenna beam characteristics to support high-density communications networks. The project required switched-beam hub base station antennas that were dual-polarized and capable of achieving high isolation with other beams within the sector, said the company. The hub base station antennas were deployed above rooftop level and communicated with below-rooftop-level access base station antennas that achieved links with mobile subscribers. In addition to demonstrating the ultra-dense below-rooftop radio network deployment, which exploited the concept of small cells and natural urban radio isolations, Alvarion said the project also highlighted the joint design of access and backhaul networks using heterogeneous radio elements in licensed and license-exempt spectrum. These included aggregation of in-band backhauling and broadband millimeter-wave technology to address small cell backhaul issues and co-operative technologies at a base station, cognitive radio, autonomous radio resource assignment and network technologies for reduced management and operational complexity. "Viewing the live demonstration at Alvarion's office in April was the necessary proof-point for the successful close to this project," said Oleg Marinchenco, BuNGee project coordinator from Alvarion. "With BuNGee, we have taken great steps in the implementation of next generation networks for the entire communications market." For more:
- see this Alvarion release Related articles:
Alvarion sours on WiMAX
Is WiMAX 2 ITU nod too little, too late?
ITU sets IMT-Advanced standards, including LTE Advanced and WiMAX 2 Read more about: 802.16, MIMO
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5. Comcast activates thousands of California Wi-Fi hotspots
Comcast announced it has deployed and activated a couple thousand Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots across northern and central California, marking an expansion of its Wi-Fi ambitions beyond the eastern seaboard. Xfinity WiFi is available for no additional charge to Xfinity Internet residential customers or Comcast Business Class Internet customers in select cities across the San Francisco Bay Area and San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. Comcast spokesman Bryan Bird told the Fresno Bee that the cable TV operator intends to add more Wi-Fi hotspots to its current list of 2,700 in California. Non-Comcast customers can access the service by paying a per-use charge. "Our customers are increasingly leveraging wireless devices, platforms and apps and looking for ways to enjoy their entertainment and communications outside of their homes," said Elaine Barden, regional vice president of marketing for Comcast California. The full Wi-Fi coverage list includes the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Aptos, Atwater, Buellton, Cameron Park, Carmel, Chico, Chowchilla, Colusa, Corcoran, Davis, Diamond Springs, Dinuba, El Dorado Hills, Elk Grove, Fairfield, Folsom, Fresno, Galt, Grass Valley, Hanford, Kerman, Lathrop, Lemoore, Lodi, Lompoc, Los Banos, Madera, Manteca, Marysville, Mendota, Merced, Modesto, Monterey, Murphys, Nevada City, Newman, Oakdale, Oroville, Parlier, Patterson, Placerville, Rancho Cordova, Reedley, Roseville, Sacramento, Salinas, San Andreas, Sanger, Santa Maria, Selma, Solvang, Sonora, Soquel, Stockton, Tracy, Tulare, Twain Harte, Vacaville, Vallejo, Visalia, Willows and Yuba City. Comcast's California Wi-Fi network expansion is a shift for the company, which had been concentrating its Wi-Fi efforts primarily on markets along the nation's eastern seaboard, said GigaOM, noting the operator has rolled out extensive Wi-Fi networks using Ericsson BelAir Networks equipment in and around Boston; Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va. In mid-September Comcast switched on almost 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Comcast previously announced roaming agreements with fellow cable operators Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, under which Xfinity Internet customers can enjoy thousands of Xfinity WiFi hotspots in the greater New York tri-state area for no additional fee. The company also is part of a broader roaming partnership, which was announced in May and includes Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks. For more:
- see this Comcast release
- see this Fresno Bee article
- see this GigaOM article
- see this PCMag article Related articles:
Comcast lights up 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots in New England
Verizon's cable partners could launch hybrid Wi-Fi/cellular service
Comcast offers free WiFi during Summer Olympics
Comcast's 'Voice 2go' Wi-Fi calling service takes aim at carriers, Skype
Cable companies agree to nationwide Wi-Fi roaming deal Read more about: Wi-Fi
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The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I actually thought youd have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could fix if you werent too busy looking for attention.
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