By-now obligatory Clearwire Non-rumor of the day

From Good Day, BWIA - Wednesday in Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) / WiMAX News:

McCaw Bets Again On Wireless Frontier, a front page article in the Wall Street Journal. I read it in hardcopy today, and Amol Sharma does a pretty fair job of deconstructing Clearwire. This mention in the first few paragraphs was interesting, confirming one key recent Clearwire / Sprint Nextel rumor: Last week, his plans on that front were dealt a blow. Sprint Nextel Corp., which is working on its own WiMax network, scrapped a preliminary agreement to join forces with Clearwire to build a national one. A separate plan to spin off Sprint's broadband unit and merge it with Clearwire was rejected by Sprint's board last week, people familiar with the situation say. The two companies are continuing to talk, these people say. Kudos to Sharma for doing his homework - this is the first "mainstream" story about Clearwire that mentions that the genesis of Clearwire was not McCaw, but rather an earlier incantation of Clearwire that McCaw aquired and resurrected. Further kudos to Sharma for making the connection between McCaw's "Project Angel" a decade ago, and Clearwire now.


By Steve Stroh

This article is Copyright © 2007 by Steve Stroh except for specifically-marked excerpts. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged).

From Good Day, BWIA - Wednesday in Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) / WiMAX News:

McCaw Bets Again On Wireless Frontier, a front page article in the Wall Street Journal. I read it in hardcopy today, and Amol Sharma does a pretty fair job of deconstructing Clearwire. This mention in the first few paragraphs was interesting, confirming one key recent Clearwire / Sprint Nextel rumor: Last week, his plans on that front were dealt a blow. Sprint Nextel Corp., which is working on its own WiMax network, scrapped a preliminary agreement to join forces with Clearwire to build a national one. A separate plan to spin off Sprint's broadband unit and merge it with Clearwire was rejected by Sprint's board last week, people familiar with the situation say. The two companies are continuing to talk, these people say. Kudos to Sharma for doing his homework - this is the first "mainstream" story about Clearwire that mentions that the genesis of Clearwire was not McCaw, but rather an earlier incantation of Clearwire that McCaw aquired and resurrected. Further kudos to Sharma for making the connection between McCaw's "Project Angel" a decade ago, and Clearwire now.


By Steve Stroh

This article is Copyright © 2007 by Steve Stroh except for specifically-marked excerpts. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged).