Alcatel-Lucent and Etisalat have successfully completed a technology trial with the groundbreaking lightRadio portfolio highlighting how it can meet fast-growing customer demand for high-bandwidth mobile broadband services. According to company reports, this is the first mobile broadband connection made in the United Arab Emirates made possible by Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio architecture over a working 4G LTE network.
With rival LightSquared running into interference, Clearwire sees an even bigger opportunity for itself to offer a 4G network to others.
“Our spectrum is clean, it’s contiguous, it’s deep and it doesn’t suffer from interference issues,” CEO Erik Prusch said in an interview at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
It’s been a rough go for Clearwire, however. In addition to shifting its focus from one wireless technology to another, Clearwire has also cut costs, pared its workforce and outsourced some network operations to Ericsson.
