Clearwire & Sprint: WiMAX Roaming?
Posted by samc on July 18th, 2007Clearwire and Sprint are nearing an agreement to provide Mobile WiMAX roaming between the two companys’ networks, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Recently, Clearwire announced an agreement with satellite providers DirecTV and EchoStar that will allow the Kirkland Wash., start-up to bundle its high-speed wireless Web access with their TV programming.
Clearwire says it has 258,000 customers as of March 2007 in the United States and abroad. Clearwire’s frequencies now cover 205 million people in the U.S., according to their SEC filing. Clearwire also owns frequencies in Europe, covering 117 million people, and a recent German auction adds coverage of 82.5 million more.
“We will have 100 million covered by the end of 2008 and be in 35 markets,” claims Sprint’s Barry West. “We’re soft launching in Washington and Chicago in December and launching commercially in April of 2008.” The Sprint WiMAX mobile broadband network covers 85 percent of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets.
source : dailywireless.org
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