Comments on: San Francisco to Get Clearwire WiMAX in 2010

By: Nancy Hutchins

Nancy Hutchins — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:50:51 +0000

I just checked and they are still not in Colorado. Interesting piece and a company worth following. Thanks.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:23:31 +0000

Oh that is very interesting. Must look into this a little bit. Thanks for the tip.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:22:17 +0000

Sprint owns a big portion of CLearwire. So from that perspective it is good news. Of course, clearwire is using their 3G network to fill the gaps. from that perspective it is not a bad deal for Sprint

By: Gary Edwards

Gary Edwards — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:04:55 +0000

A few years ago Intel conducted an early WiMAX test with CalTrain. The test involved WiMAX routers mounted along the Silicon Valley railway, connected to fiber optic cable that was laid during the last centuries broadband boom. CalTrain insists that although the tests were successful, the agencies profit neutral status prevents them from activating a WiMAX service that would stretch from San Francisco to San Jose.

CalTrain claims that they are looking for proposals to take over the WiMAX-Optic infrastructure, but that there is little interest. I’m wondering why ClearWire wouldn’t be interested in a right-of-way that runs the full length of Silicon Valley, and is prepped to go?

~ge~

By: Jack Hamilton

Jack Hamilton — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:41:51 +0000

What is the definition of “San Francisco” area? Will service go down to Cupertino, up to Novato, and over to Sacramento? Or will be footprint be much smaller?

By: Paul Kapustka

Paul Kapustka — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:49:10 +0000

For Sprint this also means another locale to sell hybrid 3G/4G services (for devices like the mobile routers they intro’d last week), which will be needed by true road warriors who want one device/one service for more than one geographical region.

Plus remember Sprint is majority owner of Clearwire, so any profits also help the Sprint bottom line.

Don’t forget, CLWR earnings tomorrow… should be interesting to see the second quarter of subscriber numbers from Portland.

By: Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:29:50 +0000

In San Fran, Clearwire could give AT&T a run for its money as a DSL alternative, plus it’ll make a sweet bundle for Comcast in SF…

What does this mean for Sprint? Network backhaul revenues.

I guess this quashes the whisper campaign that the GSM people had going against WiMAX……

By: gbp

gbp — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:39:37 +0000

Does this means anything to SPRINT ????

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:04:07 +0000

Thank Heavens!
I’m so relieved to hear that San Fransisco is not going to be left behind on the *latest* cutting edge broadband product!
I’d hate to think that consumers there would only have a half dozen choices on how to connect to the internet with fast reliable speeds as opposed to most of the rural U.S. which has the option of dial-up or paying through the nose for capped satellite connections that go down on cloudy days.

Go Clearwire!

By: David Robins

David Robins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:29:22 +0000

I am begining to think wimax has a future! If it works in San Francisco it will work anywhere. I think a good stock play would be alvr since they make wimax gear!

By: sothonod

sothonod — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:48:12 +0000

“like competing 4G wireless broadband technology Long Term Evolution (LTE), isn’t going to arrive in the San Francisco Bay Area until sometime in 2010″

What are you taking about? 2010 is only 6 months away! As far as LTE maybe in 2015?

Until then make money with CLWR:

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:CLWR