1 edit | Spectrum issues I wonder what spectrum Verizon will use? They probably don't have enough spectrum in 800/1900mhz to do 4G and will have to maintain CDMA for many years during deployment. And the 700mhz spectrum is being chopped up so much there won't be much room for 4G, maybe only 10mhz per market. They may go to LTE but don't expect it to be high performing.
Sprint/Clearwire have around 100mhz avg in 2.5Ghz per market for WiMAX. Plenty of room to do very high speeds, even 1Gbps with 801.16m WiMAX (google for it). Getting backhaul to the towers will be the challenge.
WiMAX has a much better opportunity to get into consumer electronic devices like gameboys/PSP, cameras, GPS devices, etc. LTE will likely be limited to phones and laptop cards - and then there is the spectrum issue for the States. ATT also probably doesn't have enough spectrum to do high performing LTE either.
I'm surprised Qualcomm stock hasn't sunk. They are screwed. |
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| I would think that Verizon might try to play in the AWS band. They recently bought up about $2.5 Billion worth of spectrum in the recent auction. |
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| Found this..
»cellphoneforums.net/general-serv···ion.html
Looks like the most is in 20mhz chunks, which is probably not enough to get 100Mbps, but still good performance. Did Verizon buy enough to do this nationwide? |
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| Definately not enough for nation wide but they bought pretty large chunks of the midwest and east coast along with Hawaii. They got 20mHz REAs for the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, and Mississippi Valley. 7 20 MHz CMAs in Louisiana and 1 20 MHz BEA in Lake Charles, LA and 1 20 MHz BEA in Honolulu, HI. They got a total of 13 (fairly large) markets/population for their money. The biggest spender in this auction was T-Mobile spending $4 Billion on 120 Markets. Definately shows that they are looking to build their own nationwide network.
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