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**Hiro-Hito** 13/6/2008, 6:00 am

Clearwire touts fully open, third pipe "New Clearwire" WiMAX network

by Donald Melanson, posted Jun 12th 2008 at 4:48PM

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It's not exactly a surprise that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have some pretty big plans for their newly-merged WiMAX network, but a recent FCC filing has now revealed some tantalizing details about exactly just what they have in mind. As Ars Technica reports, the two companies foresee the "New Clearwire" WiMAX network as being nothing short of a true "third pipe" into the home, and a fully open one at that. That would let users use any "lawful device" on the network so long as it's "compatible with and not harmful to the WiMAX network," and it'd offer non-exclusive wholesale access to the network to anyone looking to hop on the WiMAX bandwagon. The two companies are also promising that customers can expect to get speeds up to 6Mbps on the downlink, and 3Mbps uplink, and that the network will cover 140 million people by 2010 -- and a full 220 million by 2017.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/12/clearwire-touts-fully-open-third-pipe-new-clearwire-wimax-net/

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080612-clearwire-promises-a-fully-open-third-pipe-wimax-network.html

**Hiro-Hito** 19/6/2008, 1:49 pm

Sprint turning on WiMAX in Baltimore in September, Chicago and DC by end of year

by Nilay Patel, posted Jun 18th 2008 at 9:37PM
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse spoke at NXTcomm08 today, and he let it slip that Sprint is planning on launching its first commercially-available WiMAX network in Baltimore in September, and expanding the trial service currently operating in Chicago and DC by the end of the year. We're assuming that means Clearwire and not Sprint itself, of course, but Hesse also touched on the carrier's WiMAX-based 4G strategy, saying that consumers "can't seem to get enough data" and that devices like digital cameras and GPS systems will eventually connect to WiMAX directly -- allowing Sprint to "break free of wireless cellphone group think." Sure, whatever -- but let's get that network lit up before we start counting chickens, shall we?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/sprint-turning-on-wimax-in-baltimore-in-september-chicago-and-d/

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