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<title>Report: Verizon proposes $1.5B Clearwire spectrum lease</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/15/sec.filing.by.clearwire.mentions.party.j.believed.to.be.verizon/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sprint makes it official: will buy Clearwire for $2.2B</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/17/sprint.now.will.leverage.clearwires.25ghz.spectrum.assets/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355756044_ScreenShot2012-12-17at9.50.35AM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Confirming earlier reports of an acquisition in the offing, Sprint today announced that it would be taking full ownership of wireless broadband wholesaler Clearwire. The final price for the deal came in at $2.2 billion, just above earlier estimates that had Sprint paying $2.1 billion. That price represents a 128 percent premium to Clearwire's closing share price from October 10, the day before Spr...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sprint offers to buy out rest of Clearwire for $2.1B</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1350590532_horLogo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Sprint, the United States' third-largest wireless carrier, has offered to acquire Clearwire for $2.1 billion. Sprint already owns half of Clearwire, having acquired a controlling stake in the carrier in October of this year after buying $100 million worth of shares off of an investment firm. This new offer would give Sprint access a larger spectrum portfolio, an asset the carrier needs if it want...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FreedomPop aims to disrupt home broadband with Hub Burst</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/12/home.modem.comes.with.1gb.free.data.per.month/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355335993_ScreenShot2012-12-12at1.12.35PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[FreedomPop, maker of 4G WiMAX cases for iOS devices, is expanding into the home broadband Internet market, the company announced today. The firm that calls itself "America's new free Internet company" announced the pre-order availability of its new Hub Burst, a home modem providing free high-speed Internet for homes and small offices at speeds faster than typical DSL. FreedomPop, which has plan...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sprint to take controlling stake in Clearwire</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1350590532_horLogo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A regulatory filing revealed today that US carrier Sprint will buy shares in Clearwire Corp. sufficient to take a controlling stake in the wireless carrier. Sprint will pay $100 million to Eagle Rivers Holding, an investment firm owned by Clearwire founder Craig McCaw, in order to acquire a further 30.9 million of Clearwire's Class A shares and 2.73 million Class B shares, bringing Sprint's stak...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Karma testing prepaid social mobile hotspots in New York</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/14/hotspots.grant.public.access.and.give.owners.credit/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339700563_karmahotspot.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Startup company Karma is creating a service offering pay-as-you-go 4G wireless hotspots with a social element. The unit will charge by the gigabyte, but in a move similar to Fon, will be open to public use, according to The Verge. Users without an account accessing it gets 100mb of free service and also credits the hotspot owner by an equal amount....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sprint is no longer the majority owner of Clearwire</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/sprint-store.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Sprint no longer has a majority stake in Clearwire, it announced on Monday. This now means its voting rights in the venture are increased and there is no risk of defaulting on its own debt. Late last year, Sprint invested hundreds of millions into Clearwire to help it out of debt and to build out its 4G LTE network....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Qualcomm working on LTE chip with 7-band frequency support</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339002205_qualcommsnapdragonin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Qualcomm working on LTE chip with 7-band frequency supportA new FCC filing (PDF) from Qualcomm reveals the mobile chipmaker is hard at work on an upcoming LTE chip that support many wireless frequency bands. The chip promises to support three frequencies on either side of 1GHz and a seventh one in the high range that would be compatible with Clearwire's 2.5GHz 4G network. This spread would effec...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Clearwire and Qualcomm to partner on multi-mode LTE chips</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/09/clearwire.qualcomm.join.to.unify.lte/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/clear.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Clearwire and Qualcomm have announced a new partnership that will bring support for Clearwireís TDD-LTE frequency to its multi-mode LTE mobile chipsets towards the end of the year. Clearwire had taken a different tact to most of the other US carriers, who have opted for the FDD-LTE standard. However, the TDD-LTE specification has been widely adopted across the globe by heavyweights including China...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Clearwire preps 31 areas for LTE rollout in 2013</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/26/clearwire/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/clearspot4gplus-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Clearwire late Thursday gave an indication as to the scope of its initial LTE network launch for mid-2013.  A total of 31 market areas would be covered during the launch period. The deployment would include several major cities, among them Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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