Cricket Communications and Clearwire announced that the two firms have entered into a five-year wholesale agreement.
With the agreement, Cricket will become the second operator to have signed on to leverage Clearwire’s forthcoming LTE advanced-ready network, which will provide capacity off-load services to supplement Cricket's own LTE network.
Cricket currently plans to deploy LTE across approximately two-thirds of its current network footprint over the next two to three years and to cover up to approximately 25 million POPs with LTE network technology in 2012.
“The high-speed 4G LTE networks we are deploying will complement our robust 3G network and allow us to continue innovating value for our Cricket customers,” said Doug Hutcheson, president and CEO of Leap Wireless International, Cricket’s parent company. “We believe this agreement with Clearwire provides us with an attractive option to supplement our own LTE build-out strategy and gives us the flexibility to access additional 4G capacity needed as data-centric devices continue to become more popular.”
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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