AT&T challenges WiMax joint venture
News AT&T is looking to halt the proposed merger of Sprint Nextel's nationwide WiMax assets with those of Clearwire. Sprint Nextel announced in May that it was teaming up with Clearwire to form a new joint venture that would combine both companies...
[July 28, 2008, 9:08]
WiMax firm gets major cash injection
News Clearwire, which hopes to install WiMax networks that will cover continents, announced on Wednesday that it has received $900m in financing from Intel and Motorola and will work with the two giants to popularise the wireless broadband technology.
[July 6, 2006, 16:25]
Intel deal provides WiMax boost
News Intel and cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw's latest company, Clearwire, plans to develop and install high-speed networks based on broadband technology commonly referred to as WiMax. Under terms of the deal, announced on Monday in San Francisco at the...
[October 26, 2004, 9:20]
WiMAX USA: $3.2 billon and counting...
Blog The Wall Street Journal is saying that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire's joint venture is finally shaping up, with a billion from Intel, a billion and change from cable company Comcast, half a billion from Google and a bit over half a billion from...
[May 7, 2008, 12:15]
Verizon completes initial 4G wireless test
News Verizon will be competing with Clearwire and its partners, which are already rolling out a commercial service for their 4G wireless network that uses WiMax technology. Clearwire has already launched its service in Atlanta, Baltimore, Las Vegas and...
[August 17, 2009, 11:25]
Mobile operators want to retain network control
News He said true openness will come with the company's new 4G WiMax network, which it is building with Clearwire. But John Stanton, who founded Voicestream and Western Wireless, cautioned these chief executives in a later panel discussion with Craig...
[September 11, 2008, 9:21]
WiMax gathers steam
News Currently, the only other operator in the US using WiMax is a start-up called Clearwire, which was founded by mobile-industry billionaire Craig McCaw. Clearwire, which raised $900m in venture backing this summer, went public earlier this month.
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
Tech giants plan WiMax patent pool
News Cisco, Intel, Samsung, Sprint Nextel, Alcatel-Lucent and Clearwire, plan on Monday to announce the creation of the organisation — to be called the Open Patent Alliance — the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the group's plans.
[June 9, 2008, 8:17]
Nortel ditches WiMax in favour of 4G
News The company earlier this year joined forces with Clearwire and several other companies including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Intel in a $12bn (£6bn) joint venture to build a nationwide WiMax network.
[June 13, 2008, 9:29]
WiMax tipped for victory over LTE
News The analyst believes the $3bn (£1.9bn) Sprint/Clearwire WiMax rollout in the US will have a big impact on whether or not large worldwide operators opt to deploy mobile WiMax. The future of 4G is a tale of two technologies: LTE and mobile WiMax, but...
[October 24, 2008, 9:29]
WiMax to 'cover the UK' within two years
News On Wednesday, a joint venture in the US was announced, involving Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, with $1bn (£511m) in funding from Intel and similarly large amounts from other players like Google, Comcast and Time Warner.
[May 8, 2008, 14:07]
Intel warns of $2bn revenue shortfall
News Intel also noted it expects to report a greater loss in its equity investment, interest and "other" category of between $1.1bn and $1.2bn, versus its previous expectation of a loss of about $50m.The chipmaker's investment in Clearwire, for example...
[January 7, 2009, 16:27]
WiMax Forum certifies first 2.5GHz products
News The 2.5GHz products should be usable in Clearwire and Sprint's WiMax networks in the US. The WiMax Forum has issued its first certifications for mobile-centric products that operate around the 2.5GHz frequency, and said it will start certifying...
[June 19, 2008, 12:56]
Mobile industry gets 4G buzz
News A new company called Clearwire, started by mobile-industry billionaire Craig McCaw, is already using a flavour of WiMax to deliver its wireless broadband service. Imagine a day when parents watching their child at a football game in London can...
[August 14, 2006, 9:00]
Party Like It's 2009
Blog That far inside a building HD radio doesn’t work so we couldn’t try it out (the Clearwire WiMAX was going rather more slowly than we’d expected too, thanks to the metal roof) but with its usual ‘third time’s the charm’ strategy, Microsoft seems to...
[October 14, 2009, 12:03]
Cisco to purchase WiMax start-up
News But justifying the expense of the network as the company loses regular mobile-phone subscribers hasn't been easy, and the company has joined forces with another provider called Clearwire that also plans on building a nationwide WiMax network.
[October 23, 2007, 15:40]
Intel Developer Forum - Wimax, HD laptop commitments
Blog Year ago, two vendors were committed, Clearwire and Sprint. Paul Otellini has moved onto Wimax, which he says is an essential component of the next wave of ultramobile. Year ago, trials moving from fixed wimax to mobile.
[September 18, 2007, 17:30]
