Sprint Clear Ready Set GO

As smart phones are on a mission to dominate the wireless world, their is this need for speed. And as penetration of these devices really starts to gain momentum, it changes all things in it's path. Google last year changed their mantra to "mobile first", and that should be enough to show where we are headed, and fast.

If you want to stay in the lead, follow the leader. We are currently at about 36% of mobiles in the US that are smart phones, and that number is changing by the minute. Every time their is a new report on that percentage of smart phones changing, Google has new numbers as to how search is changing. More and more people are searching from their mobile, for things in their local market.

Carriers are also seeing this, and wonder if their capacity will suffice. Clear just handed off their 4G management to Ericsson, and they are leaders in their field,
Sprint has also let Ericsson manage their network. As these phones are starting to penetrate in every way, the networks are feeling the strain, on their ability to serve up the kind of speed needed to maintain a happy consumer experience.

After Clear made the announcement last week to outsource their 4G management to Ericsson, this press from camp clear,

Clearwire COO sees LTE switch on horizon, but details cloudy

And this news today from fierce Wireless,

FCC to consider proposal that could boost Clearwire network speeds

I do see team Sprint Clear laying the ground work for some big news here.

20 MHz channels at 2.5 GHz going forward with an LTE path.. WOW that is one large piece of data pipe.

Sprint does have some serious integration, and migration work ahead of them.

They are working with bands in the 800MHz, 1.9GHz, 2.5GHz, CDMA, WIMAX, LTE, well I for one am glad I don't have the headache of trying to come up with a solution that works with their devices as well. However they do have masters of the trade at the helm with Ericsson.

When Clear is ready to make a final announcement on their technology of choice, that I think will be some sort of combo play, as they will need to migrate from one technology to another, they will find it much easier to acquire funding moving forward.

Their are test going on in Malaysia where they are trying to come up with a solution that is a combo of the two Wimax and LTE, but from what I'm understanding, non simultaneously at the moment.

Sprint is using equipment that will allow them to go with any technology they choose, and that's good, as they are rich with many.

I do think we will  see some news on this front soon, as technology waits for no one. Never count sprint or Clear as out of the game, they are just getting started

The LTE camps currently only have 20MHz for their 4G. Clear 140MHz In this case bigger is better.