Posts Tagged ‘harbinger’

HTC EVO 4G’s appearance on HSN is either a great sign, or a harbinger of the apocalypse

Remember to use Tootie! Continue reading HTC EVO 4G's appearance on HSN is either a great sign, or a harbinger of the apocalypse HTC EVO 4G's appearance on HSN is either a great sign, or a harbinger of the apocalypse originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:49:00 EST.

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4G shocker! T-Mobile USA boss talked to LTE wholesaler earlier this year

Clearwire isn't the only American company building a carrier-independent (if you can call majority ownership by Sprint "carrier-independent") 4G network, you see -- and it would certainly behoove T-Mobile to investigate options that let it stay on a more GSM-aligned path for its next-gen network than WiMAX would, right? That might be where Harbinger Capital Partners comes into play, a group that recently bought up a bunch of satellite and terrestrial spectrum with the intention of creating a wholesale LTE network into which companies -- companies like T-Mobile, for instance -- could buy

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New US LTE network borne of satellite operators, launching next year

Over the next few years we're looking at major LTE build-outs in the US from at least two players -- Verizon and AT&T -- but we've rather unexpectedly gotten a third player coming into the fold today led by hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners. Basically, these guys just got regulatory approval last week to buy satellite operator SkyTerra , combining about 23MHz of spectrum through slivers of ownership in the 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz terrestrial bands with 10MHz of L-band satellite space.

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