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Clearwire, having signed up Cisco for its IP core network, made it clear it would shop around when it came to further RAN contracts. Chief strategy officer Scott Richardson said on a recent conference call that it was "considering multiple partners on the access side", though it was "still buying" from its initial partners Motorola and Samsung. He indicated that Nokia Siemens and Huawei were not out of the running.

NSN was originally selected as a third supplier by Sprint, before it merged its Xohm unit with Clearwire, but was then widely thought to have backed away from the market. Huawei was recently rumored to have signed a deal with Clearwire, which would be an important breakthrough in the US market.

Richardson also looked forward to investing in smaller cells in future, saying Clearwire would select vendors for "picocells, microcells, and distributed antenna" technology at the appropriate time, according to Unstrung. All of this kit will work with the IP core from Cisco, which will also co-develop devices via its Linksys division and could even bid for RAN business via the unit it acquired with Navini Networks.

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