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Sprint Nextel's Xohm unit may establish a management company to develop WiMAX services for Indian operators, and to take advantage of the Indian government's favorable view of the 4G technology.
Xohm is set to merge with Clearwire Corp. to form the "new" Clearwire, which has a $3.2 billion capital investment from companies such as Intel, Google and Comcast. Clearwire shareholders are set to vote on the move today, which was granted regulatory approval by the FCC earlier this month.
"India is an important market and we would look at expanding WiMAX coverage there. We are looking at forming a management company to bring together various stakeholders, including license holders, investors and those with management skills," Xohm's President Barry West said. India is planning a WiMAX spectrum auction in January 2009, and the government has indicated it will auction spectrum in the 2.3GHz-2.4GHz range in blocks of 20MHz each.
Sprint is currently working with Indian operators, including Tata Communications, Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Reliance Communications to develop and expand their WiMAX offerings and may also be considering bidding on WiMAX spectrum itself.
For more:
- see this article
- see this article on the spectrum issue
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Comments
Posted by Willie LU | November 20, 2008 - 1:09pm
WiMax is an Indian Technology, and over 90% WiMax executives are Indian!
In Intel and other vendors in Silicon Valley, almost all Wimax executives are Indians. So it is a good suggestion to move Wimax back India - the home of Wimax.
Posted by Anonymous | November 21, 2008 - 1:42pm
Sprints advice to Indian telcos will be;
Dont forget to order the backhaul like we did.
It only took us two years with 1000s of employees to launch a single test market.
You need cheap Indian labor? We got more than you do right here in the US.
Posted by Anonymous | November 21, 2008 - 5:44pm
Willie. How many WiMax patents do the Indians actually hold? How did you come up with 90%? Yours is one of the more bizarre threads I have read in while. Willie...how old are you?
Posted by wimaxjet | November 22, 2008 - 3:24pm
I guess Spring is not doing consulting here in US because that would mean to consult the competitors :) .
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