(This article was originally posted on Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX News blog, permalink www.bwianews.com/2004/06/good_article_on.html.)
Jacksonville, Florida will be the launch market for Clearwire, Craig McCaw's just-announced BWIA service.
In a story in the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union titled Wireless Internet coming to Duval (if memory serves, Duval is the county surrounding Jacksonville), Timothy Gibbons does a good job of explaining what Clearwire is all about, and why the locals should be interested in the new service that will be available later this summer. A companion piece Questions & Answers: Service provides speed without a physical link, reveals that Daytona and Orlando, Florida are among the list of "20 cities" that Clearwire will deploy in the coming year.
While I'm quoted in the story, that's not why I'm bringing it to your attention; Gibbons did his homework on Clearwire, including an interview with Craig McCaw in Washington DC shortly after McCaw's speech at the WCA yesterday. For example, Gibbons is the only popular press writer (that I recall) that makes the point that Jacksonville was also the the test market for Clearwire's previous incarnation using a different technology.
Steve Stroh
Copyright (c) 2004, 2007 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on Corante / Broadband Wireless Internet Access.
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