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$50,000 per tower to upgrade to high speed. Do the math

Visant also estimates that Verizon Wireless has the most base stations (approximately 61,500) while AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel count about 52,120 base stations, and T-Mobile USA at about 42,500.

“AT&T and Verizon will be able to gain nationwide LTE coverage with substantial capacity by deploying between 15,000 and 25,000 LTE base stations. They'll need substantially fewer base stations for coverage compared to existing cellular and especially 1.9 GHz systems because they are deploying on the 700 MHz band and because the first iteration of LTE will include 2x2 MIMO,” Swasey said.

However, Clearwire will need from one-and-one-half to three times the number of mobile WiMAX base stations simply because it operates at a higher frequency, Swasey noted.