Clearwire, DirecTV and EchoStar now can offer ’triple play’ bundl...

said. Under the agreement, Clearwire also should be able to sell the satellite companies’ video services. But it’s unclear which satellite service Clearwire will offer customers -- if not both. Unlike major telcos, Clearwire likely will sell its “triple play” components unbundled, Clearwire spokeswoman Helen Chung told Communications Daily. Clearwire did not give the agreements’ terms. The pacts do not mark “a complete solution” for the satellite companies, given Clearwire’s limited coverage, Pali Research’s Walter Piecyk said. But if Clearwire succeeds at rolling out its network everywhere it has spectrum, “it would offer a differentiated service to cable operators based on its mobility and it could remain as a potential acquisition candidate,” he said. DirecTV previously has flopped at adding broadband to its service, trying a satellite broadband service and signing agreements with telcos, Piecyk said: “Broadband over satellite is plagued with latency and speed issues and the telephone companies are in the process of building fiber networks that would enable their own triple play service.” The ability of DirecTV and ClearWire to offer a wireless bundle to compete against cable and telcos will also benefit infrastructure contractor MasTec, ThinkEquity Partners said. DirecTV is MasTec’s largest customer, it said.