Maravedis
4G Digest

March 24th, 2010 - Volume 5, Issue 22




Cintia Garza
Clearwire:
Strong 4G growth anticipated for 2010-2011.

By Cintia Garza - 4GCounts Team Leader and Market Analyst North America and CALA
  Clearwire reported its 2009 financial earnings last week, and they surpassed our expectations. In mid-February 2010, Maravedis’ 4GCounts Quarterly Report Issue 10 estimated that Clearwire would reach optimistically 650,000 subscribers of which approximately 300,000 would be served by the CLEAR 4G network. Our estimations were very close, with Clearwire reporting a total of 688,000 subscribers at the end of 2009, of which 438,000 were 4G subscribers, and the remaining were served by its pre-4G markers. These numbers represent 24% quarterly increase in general subscribers and 153% increase in 4G subscribers. This clearly demonstrates Clearwire’s leading position with 4G/mobile WiMAX in the USA over its mobile competitors Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T which have chosen to go the LTE route... >> Read More



4G Crosscurrents:
Sprint-Clearwire goes Supersonic - Qualcomm stirs up India BWA Auction

By Robert Syputa, Sr. Analyst & Advisor

  As we prepared to participate in CTIA in Las Vergas, Nevada, our attention focused on recent and upcoming announcements that peg events for rapidly evolving next generation wireless competition. Among the many events, what stands out most are: Sprint-Clearwire’s announcement of the HTC Supersonic Google Android 3.0 3G/WiMAX Smartphone and Qualcomm’s intent to bid on the April 9th BWA auction with TD-LTE... >> Read More

The Great Indian Wireless Auction
By Sridhar Pai- Tonse Telecom - Maravedis’ Partner in India

  Legend has it that in the 1800s there was such a thing called the Great Indian Rope trick - a stage magic act where a magician would suspend a rope erect in mid air and ask his assistant to ascend the rope. Upon reaching the top the assistant would disappear into thin air. After a while the assistant’s limbs fell down. The magician would then breathe life into the bone heap and the assistant would be seen walking on the ground... >> Read More

4Ggear Quarterly Report - Issue 1 (179kb PDF)

4GCounts Quarterly Report - Issue 10 (465kb PDF)

Brazil Wireless Broadband and WiMAX Market Analysis, 2010 (256kb PDF)

WiMAX Wave2 Subscriber Station Chipset Vendors - Competitive Analysis (934kb PDF)


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