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Suit seeks to block Clearwire, Sprint deal
Phone-giant affiliate iPCS cites exclusivity agreement
A local wireless-service provider and three subsidiaries on Monday filed a suit to block a deal between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. to build a nationwide network allowing access to the Internet from anywhere at high speeds.
Last week, Sprint and Clearwire said they were combining their wireless broadband businesses into a $14.5 billion venture. The new wireless company is to operate a next-generation network using WiMax technology, which blankets large metropolitan areas with coverage, allowing Internet access from mobile phones and other gadgets at speeds similar to what is available for residential broadband service.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Look to convoluted 2.5GHz EBS Lease Deals...
These non-profits could have easily formed local public/private partnerships to build out both 3.65 and 2.5 GHz networks, established their core access plans and peripheral applications, and then lease all the space they wanted to service providers.
This asset could have been used to benefit the citizenry, local businesses, local governments, and communities as well as the non-profit licensee. But now all we can expect is for Sprint/Clearwire to blanket our cities and communities with coverage and compete to pull every dollar they can from those cities and communities.
Shame on these non-profits. The monies they could have generated through local public/private partnerships would have dwarfed the under-valued lease payments by Sprint and Clearwire… so in the long run they have done a huge disservice to their constituents, communities, and local governments.
This is an outrage... but as goes the money, so goes the FCC and the Educational Broadband Spectrum.
See:
http://www.freepress.net/node/40251
http://www.govtech.com/dc/articles/325143
http://www.accessdelray.org/Broadband+Future.html