Verizon Wireless is the best positioned of all the wireless...
Verizon Wireless is the best positioned of all the wireless carriers with a national footprint to deploy LTE, Credit Suisse said in a research note. Verizon owns the most spectrum available for LTE, with 20 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum…
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and 33 MHz of AWS, provided its buy of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo is approved, Credit Suisse said. “In addition to having the most spectrum, Verizon has the right mix of spectrum, with 20 MHz of low frequency 700 MHz for coverage and 20-40 MHz of higher frequency AWS for capacity nationwide.” Sprint Nextel is “better positioned than investors realize” and will be able to deploy LTE on 10 MHz of PCS spectrum and 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum following the iDEN shutdown in mid-2013, the note said. “This doesn’t even take into account the substantial capacity that Sprint has access to through [Clearwire].” AT&T “needs to fill gaps in their 700 MHz holdings to deploy a 10x10 MHz [LTE] in the top 100 markets” and has only a quarter as much AWS spectrum as Verizon “across 60 percent of the top 100 markets,” the note said. “T-Mobile has some significant gaps: T-Mobile has more spectrum per subscriber than the other national carriers on average; however, they have some notable gaps, like New York, Chicago, and Houston with only 10 MHz available for LTE and Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City with no LTE spectrum at all. In addition, T-Mobile is the only national carrier with no low frequency coverage spectrum.” MetroPCS and Leap also both need spectrum, Credit Suisse said.