Huawei's Clearwire Ride?

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mobileinsider 12/5/2012 | 4:08:12 PM

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The only reason (I can see) why Huawei would undertake such a money-loosing project would be to ultimately transition Clearwire to HSPA+/LTE - but that is of course pure "blogger" speculation at this point...

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joset01 12/5/2012 | 4:08:12 PM

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I can see several reasons:

1. A useful stop-gap in the years before LTE. A contract is a contract and you can bet deploying LTE is going to have its own problems just as WiMax-ádoes and 3G did.

2. Huawei gains experience in mobile WiMax/broadband deployments that it can apply in a more general context.

3. Raises Huawei's WiMax profile more, useful since there are still big WiMax contracts to be won globally.

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vsomanv 12/5/2012 | 4:08:04 PM

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Huawei would be willing to do anything under the sun, to creep into the North American market

 

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mobileinsider 12/5/2012 | 4:08:02 PM

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Yes, agree. "Lower cost WiMAX" deployment now with alternate motives longer term.

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