Delivering Personal Broadband And The Mobile Internet
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Delivering Personal Broadband and the Mobile Internet
Antitrust Division Telecomm Symposium
November 2007
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Clearwire Mission: Provide the Simplest Way to Access All the Internet has to Offer – Anytime Anywhere Clearwire Highlights
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Clearwire Highlights
- Founded in October 2003 by Craig McCaw and a Team of Wireless Veterans
- Raised over $4.3 Bn in Debt and Equity: over $2.3 Bn in Equity and $2 Bn in Debt*
- Strategic Partnerships including Intel, Motorola, Bell Canada, Best Buy and Circuit City
- Business Model that is Replicable and Scalable with Demonstrated Success on a Market by Market Basis
- Largest Personal Broadband Network Operator
- A Leading Mobile WiMAX Spectrum Portfolio
* $750 MM resulting from Refinancing
Mobile Broadband- a Rapidly Growing Opportunity
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Mobile Broadband - a Rapidly Growing Opportunity
Shift to Wireless
- In 2006, 12% of all adults in the U.S. used only a cell phone
- 29% of 25 to 29 year-olds had a cell phone
- 47% of people who moved in the US last year didn't activate a land-line in their new home
Explosive Growth in Internet Uses and Applications
- E-mail, IM, voice and video communications
- Social Networking, Search, User generated content
- E-commerce, Music, videos, gamming, etc.
- 2/3rds of the US population are Internet users, with the average broadband user spending almost 35 hours per month online according to Nielsen/NetRatings
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Clearwire Vision- Mobile Triple Play
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Clearwire Networks Operating in 420+ Municipalies Around the Globe and Growing
Covering More than 14.8 Million People
RURAL - SUBURBAN - URBAN
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Current Clearwire U.S. Markets
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Current Clearwire US Spectrum
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Clearwire European Spectrum Holdings
8.7 Bn MHz-POPs
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Clearwire Progress
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The Mobile WiMAX Difference
Differentiation Enabled by Personal Broadband | |
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Cable & DSL Services | Connection and service to "You" - not a location |
Cellular / 3G Services | Internet Centric Multi Megabit True Broadban speeds |
WiFi Hotspot Services | Citywide coverage, inbuilding penetration, simpler and more consistent connections |
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WiMAX-Disruptive Across Converging Technologies
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Policy Considerations for Alternative Broadband Platforms
- Regulatory Stability and Certainty
- Neutral Spectrum Policies
- Operational Flexibility for Dynamic Technological and Market Environment
- Adapt Only Essential Legacy Regulations to New Technologies