November 9, 2009 – 2:28 pm
The WSJ’s Jeffrey McCracken and Don Clark reported yesterday that Clearwire has secured an additional $1.5 billion in financing to build out its nationwide WiMAX network. The article noted, “Sprint would invest $1 billion and its Clearwire joint venture partners, a group which includes Comcast Corp., Intel Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House [...]
Late last week, a group of hooligans in California cut fiber optic lines in two locations near Silicon Valley. As a result, thousands of business and consumer customers of AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were without service. According to an IDG News article by Stephen Lawson, the outage affected: Two IBM facilities The Internet Assigned Numbers [...]
On Wednesday, Sprint announced the next cities in its national 4G roll out: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle. All ten cities are scheduled to be upgraded to WiMAX in 2009. Sam Churchill at the dailywireless.org blog included a number of interesting images in a great post summarizing [...]
January 7, 2009 – 6:03 pm
As we begin another year, I thought it would be a perfect time to reflect on 2008 and the “year in WiMAX.” It was a big year for the industry, so I wanted to revisit some of the most important milestones: Sprint and Clearwire’s merger was probably the most important milestone in 2008. From when [...]
December 8, 2008 – 1:40 pm
I was in Baltimore this week and came across a Sprint XOHM street retail cart. I’ve read a ton of reviews on the service – most of which were very positive – so I’ve been itching to try it for myself. I had some time between meetings so I decided to take the service for [...]