Clearwire Research Reports Display Its Unmatched Capacity

Earlier this week, two commissioned research studies were made available by a leading provider of 4G mobile broadband services in the U.S., Clearwire, that outline the growing prominence of the global TDD-LTE ecosystem and an analysis of Clearwire's vast spectrum holdings.   

"Given the market's resurgent interest in understanding both our TDD LTE technology choice and our spectrum holdings, we're sharing the independent findings from these recently commissioned research reports today," said John Saw, CTO of Clearwire.

Saw added that the IDC and ABI reports highlight the benefits and economies of scale of TDD-LTE, its 2.5GHz to 2.6GHz frequency band (Band 41), and Clearwire's unmatched spectrum resources.

Titled "Validating the Market for TDD LTE in the U.S. Marketplace,” the first report is written by John Byrne, Research Director for Wireless Infrastructure at IDC. The second report is written by Phil Solis, Research Director, Devices, Content & Applications; and Jake Saunders, Vice President and Practice Director, Core Forecasting at ABI Research and is titled "LTE TDD - Making the Most of 4G."

Based on the report prepared by the IDC, it is mentioned that Clearwire is able to operate on a single bandwidth in excess of 130 MHz on average, including approximately 160 MHz on average in top 100 markets where capacity constraints are the most likely to emerge. As a result, by virtue of a significantly fatter pipe vis-à-vis competitors, Clearwire has the capability to generate much greater capacity and better network performance.

With commercial or planned deployments in major population centers including Japan, China, India, the European Union and Clearwire's deployment in the United States, the TDD-LTE ecosystem continues to grow.

According to the ABI Research report, it is mentioned that by 2014, if network rollouts in key countries are aggressive, global TDD LTE coverage will have addressable population coverage of 4.4 billion. The report also outlines the economies of scale for the device ecosystem and projects that every LTE device will support both TDD and FDD technologies, given their commonality.