Sprint Nextel’s buy of the rest of Clearwire would make...
Sprint Nextel’s buy of the rest of Clearwire would make the carrier the nation’s biggest holder of spectrum licenses and the deal should get close scrutiny from the FCC, said Roger Entner, analyst at Recon Analytics, in a blog post.…
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The deal would give Sprint control of about 200 MHz across the U.S., of the 547 MHz identified by the FCC as “useable for wireless broadband,” Entner wrote (http://bit.ly/TzITBg). “It will be interesting to see if the FCC evaluates all of the spectrum licensed to Clearwire as the agency reviews the transaction,” he said. “It will also be interesting to see if the largely irrelevant and arbitrary discussion going on inside the beltway about the relative value and utility of above and below 1 GHz spectrum will continue."