Clearwire today announced that they've struck a seven year deal with Ericsson putting the company in charging of the "day-to-day operations of the Clearwire 4G network." According to Clearwire, approximately 700 of Clearwire's 3,600 employees will technically become Ericsson employees "in locations around the United States before the middle of this year." Ericsson already manages Sprint's network, bringing Sprint and Clearwire one step closer to the unified company many feel is inevitable.
Which merger/takeover will take place first? CenturyLink/Sprint or Clearwire/Sprint? Clearwire will make a good fit for CenturyLink because of the large number of rural subscribers CenturyLink serves. If Wi-Max outperforms LTE in fixed wireless applications then both technologies might be able to coexist.
I'm not sure this is really an improvement. Sure Clear was terrible before, didn't have much coverage and slow speeds that everyone complained about but Sprint's network is not much good either with Virgin Mobile running at 56k dial-up speeds.
You don't really get what you pay for with Virgin. I only bought 1Gb of data per month for $30 and couldn't even use it all since it was way too slow at 56k and kept disconnecting me every few minutes until I gave up.
Sprint/Clearwire merger coming closer and closer
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Whose is on first?
Which merger/takeover will take place first? CenturyLink/Sprint or Clearwire/Sprint? Clearwire will make a good fit for CenturyLink because of the large number of rural subscribers CenturyLink serves. If Wi-Max outperforms LTE in fixed wireless applications then both technologies might be able to coexist.