Comments on: Clearwire Needs Money, So Hopes Cable Needs WiMAX

By: The Clear Dilemma

The Clear Dilemma — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:14:41 +0000

[...] most of its previous investors to continue its buildout of the Clear WiMAX network. However, those doubling down on WiMAX (see chart) as the ideal fourth-generation wireless technology are likely throwing good money after [...]

By: Another $1.5B Infusion for Clearwire

Another $1.5B Infusion for Clearwire — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:36:16 +0000

[...] is the largest shareholder because of its spectrum and other contributions to company. In August, Stacey pointed out that the money Clearwire had was enough to offer service to about 75 million possible subscribers, not [...]

By: Tom Foale

Tom Foale — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:10:59 +0000

Verizon has not said that it “plans to cover 100 million people by the end of 2010 with a competing Long Term Evolution 4G network” at all. Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl said the carrier would have 100 million people covered by 2010 and that TRIALS of the Long Term Evolution network would begin later this year in Boston and Seattle. It’s plans for LTE rollout have gone backward by a year already and will go backward even more before we see services.

Can you really see Verizon rolling out an IP-based high-speed wireless broadband network when its main revenue stream is from voice calls? Under net neutrality rules it’s revenues would be demolished by VoIP usage as soon as decent handsets appear and there isn’t anything Verizon could do about it. It may get some compensating broadband revenues but unless it offers something more than simple broadband it’s going to be caught between escalating bandwidth usage, declining voice revenues and flat broadband tariffs.

By: Clearwire Hires Fresh Face to Sell Wireless to the Wired

Clearwire Hires Fresh Face to Sell Wireless to the Wired — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:32:05 +0000

[...] partnerships and wholesale, which will see her market the WiMAX company’s services to its cable partners and consumer device makers, and that Chief Strategy Officer Scott Richardson will leave Clearwire, but remain available as a [...]

By: Sothonod

Sothonod — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:29:59 +0000

The one city at the time deal for the new Wimax is just fine. I’ll prefere to wait the end of 2010 for the 120 million people coverage. 3G is simply not worth it.
Also I won’t hold my breath too much as far as LTE being ready by then with both data and voice on the same device…

By: Scarhawk

Scarhawk — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:35:14 +0000

Clearwire has a data-centric network design and way more spectrum than competitors. If they can raise enough capital to get the network built out, they win. They’ll be able to drive everyone else into the ground, even with a “dumb pipe” business model, because they’ll have much more network capacity and can afford to throw bandwidth at VoIP, IP video on demand, unlimited usage, that are the bottlenecks of incumbent wireless carriers.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:08:02 +0000

Right, but for cheap CE devices, having two radios isn’t as cost-effective and it takes up space and power inside a device which doesn’t provide broadband access as its main function. The 3G/4G model makes sense for a broadband dongle, but maybe not for an e-reader.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:51:00 +0000

The plan is for such service to be available through Sprint, instead of Clearwire. If you have a WiMAX data plan through Sprint, it would prefer the Clearwire network, but fall back to Sprint’s legacy 3G. I’m pretty sure that this offering will be rolled out by Sprint by the end of the year. They are just waiting for Clearwire to have a decent number of cities covered so that they can do a nationwide advertising campaign.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:09:30 +0000

the thing is that clearwire needs to cut a deal so that its customers get unlimited off net roaming on sprints 3G CDMA network when WiMAX is not available. if you look at clearwires offering right now it is not so much the technology or speed of the network that is the attractions as much as the price and unlimited usage. sprints CDMA and clearwires WiMAX should be joined into a single data network with the WiMAX buildout happening in the most congested areas first; but most importantly the combined network should be offered nationwide at a single price point/usage restriction no matter which network a given client is connected to.

if the above is done is see the offering becoming extremely popular; at least if pricing is similar to the current WiMAX only offering.