Clearwire Could Deploy LTE in Addition to WiMAX New Maravedis report sizes up competitive opportunities for Verizon andClearwire

MONTREAL, CANADA, SEPTEMBER 15th, 2009-
Maravedis is proud to announce our new report, Sizing up the Competitive Opportunities for Verizon (LTE) and Clearwire (WiMAX), authored by Partner and Senior Analyst Robert Syputa. The report takes a look at these leading ventures into next generation wireless deployments as a study not just of the competitive challenges and opportunities facing Clearwire and Verizon, but as a portal through which to view the emergence of true "broadband everywhere"
performance over wireless networks.

As Clearwire presses ahead aggressively to deploy WiMAX, Verizon is moving ahead with fast paced development of LTE, as AT&T prepares to follow. Despite the technology differences between the standards, each player must confront the complex shifts in market demand for mobile broadband devices as they balance a growing array of partnerships, classes of service, and the potential cannibalization of existing business.

As the largest contiguous wireless broadband spectrum holder, Clearwire's challenge is to become a new type of facilities-based operator that can be parlayed through a growing array of partnerships to serve an open IP broadband market. Technology choice is not necessarily cast in stone nor the most important determinant of long-term success.

Key Topics Covered:
    Why Clearwire could deploy LTE as well as WiMAX
    How Verizon and AT&T may "cut Clearwire off at the pass" in their attempt to establish new markets
    Clearwire's key market advantages and shortcomings: Why Clearwire's time-to-market advantage may soon evaporate
    Verizon's key market advantages and shortcomings: Verizon's greatest challenge is not to cannibalize 4G before its time
    How Clearwire can evolve service up to 1 Gbps per user
    How differences in spectrum holdings and regulations impact business
    How LTE may trump WiMAX plus Wi-Fi and 3G femtocells
    The "Moore-Alamouti Law" that will leverage ICT into the future
    How "Cooper's Law" multiplies the differences between Verizon and Clearwire
    The evolution of open development social network frameworks towards video
    And much more!

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MARAVEDIS http://www.maravedis-bwa.com is a leading analyst firm focusing on disruptive technologies including smart networks using WiMAX, IEEE, and 3GPP/LTE. Maravedis works with system and service providers, vendors, regulators, and institutional investors.
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Press Contact:
Robert Syputa, Partner and Senior Analyst, Maravedis robert@maravedis-bwa.com
Phone: +1 206 367-6931