Wireless companies must offer devices that operate in a wide vari...
Wireless companies must offer devices that operate in a wide variety of bands, NextWave Wireless CEO Allen Salmasi told a Wireless Communications Assn. lunch Wed. “The reason that spectrum has become such a big issue is that up until…
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now the mindset has always been if you're going to roll out the GSM network you've got to have nationwide spectrum at 900 MHz… if you're going to do 3G you've got to go buy 2.1 GHz spectrum,” he said. “What that translates into is what we saw in the 3G auctions in Europe. People put up tens of billions of dollars to buy their spectrum and in many cases they have to write off those investments because the business case just doesn’t support that kind of investment.”