Sprint, Lightsquared Partners On LTE Build?

There is some possibility that Lightsquared will work with Sprint to build out the Lightsquared cell site network. Broadband Reports says the original terrestrial network plan, which has Nokia Siemens Networks handling the construction, now is replaced, and that other vendors, namely Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson AB and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will be doing the work.

That would suggest Lightsquared is working with Sprint, since those same vendors are revamping Sprint's network.

But Nokia Siemens Networks has suggested the rumor is perhaps untrue, or perhaps is premature. "We continue to work hard with LightSquared to help it ready its first markets and meet its commitments to customers and to other stakeholders," an NSN spokesman said, according to Light Reading.

That could be read several ways. It is possible NSN continues to work only because it hasn't been notified of a change, that it is continues to work until an end point it already knows about, or that the story about the switch is simply untrue. The statement does not read like a categorical denial, though, does it?

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