It's really depressing to see 100+ media outlets go along for the ride on this story without doing a shred of independent thinking. This is smack inside LTE ban

It's really depressing to see 100+ media outlets go along for the ride on this story without doing a shred of independent thinking. This is smack inside LTE band 41, and part of the publicly announced clearwire shift from Wimax to TD-LTE. Sprint has established contracts for access to this space and has announced the lighting of the band this summer with handsets to follow in 3Q13. Clearly google wants to be able to test basebands, and nowhere in the world has the unique combination of band 41 TDD, FDD and CDMA2000 handoff requirements. The story in the WSJ was just a placement - the analyst works for a firm representing some big clearwire stockholder that is just lobbying for a better price on the NTT/sprint buyout of clearwire. Google would have to be fucking morons to build some sort of custom basestations and mobile devices smack ontop of license only spectrum thats been designated by the ITU-R.