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Score One More for WiMAX – Clearwire Secures Additional Funding

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 [...]

The Trouble with Wires

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 Authority (IANA) [...]

Wireless Broadband Industry Growth

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 the [...]

Year in WiMAX

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 it [...]

(Balti)More Speed!

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 [...]

Baltimore’s “Raven” About WiMAX

It’s official.  Sprint Nextel has launched its first WiMAX network – in Baltimore, MD.  
 
 This heavily anticipated network roll-out is just the beginning. According to a USA Today article by Leslie Cauley, voice services will eventually be added and “WiMax networks are under construction in Washington, D.C.; Portland, Ore.; Philadelphia; Dallas/Fort Worth; and Chicago. All are [...]

While the CTIA 08 Doors Close – Networks Open

Hello from San Francisco!
It’s been a crazy few days here at CTIA, but I wanted to take a few minutes to blog about what I’ve seen on the show floor before my flight home takes off.
CTIA tends to focus on applications, software development, and network architecture, and the show this year was home to some [...]

3-Gee, that took a long time!

With the first mobile WiMAX networks from Sprint and Clearwire expected to launch this fall, consumers, mobile business users, and members of the WiMAX community are now asking – how long will it be before I can get my hands on a mobile WiMAX-enabled handheld device? Last week at the Intel Developer Forum [...]

AT&T Jumping on the WiMAX Bandwagon? Friend or Foe?

Drama, Drama, Teledrama…
The mobile space is facing some growing pains. Sprint and Clearwire are trying to move into a new market. AT&T is opposed. Wait, maybe AT&T is confused?
In a recent interview with USA Today’s Leslie Cauley, AT&T’s new CTO, John Donovan, says the company is on the look out for a [...]


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