On 11/14/07 6:58 PM, DTC wrote:
> John Navas wrote:
>> As I predicted:
>>
>> <http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=35187>
>>
>> According to Bond this is a step backwards for WiMAX, after an
>> otherwise positive year in which several small operators have
>> launched or started rolling out commercial WiMAX services, and Sprint
>> Nextel announced plans to deploy WiMAX for its future mobile
>> broadband services.
>
> WiMax was pretty much a dead end road pursued by the cellular companies
> as a profit avenue to compete against Muni-WiFi.
>
> Quoted from Telephone magazine -
>
> WiMAX follows muni Wi-Fi down slow-go path
> By Rich Karpinski
>
> Big news in the WiMAX market this week as Sprint and Clearwire cancelled
> a joint venture to build a nationwide WiMAX network. Each plan to go it
> alone, they claim, but with Sprint facing corporate headaches and
> Clearwire limited in its ability to quickly find new partners, the goal
> of nationwide WiMAX undoubtedly took a hit.
>
> Coupled with ongoing problems faced by municipal Wi-Fi projects, the
> vision of alternative wireless broadband services emerging has run into
> a healthy dose of reality. And while press reports this week had Google
> (not to mention Comcast) stepping in to the WiMAX breach, that
> apparently was as big a fantasy as the so-called gPhone.
>
> The challenges for the Sprint-Clearwire project turned out to be more
> business- than technology-related -- much as has been the case with muni
> Wi-Fi. When Sprint CEO Gary Forsee resigned recently, under growing
> criticism of Sprint's poor financial performance, the fate of the
> high-profile but risky partnership was most likely sealed.
>
> For now, Clearwire is pursuing its network launch alone. Company
> officials will launch its first WiMAX networks in mid-2008 and aim to
> pick up markets where it would have counted on Sprint by the following
> year. But WiMAX's lead in the race to deliver next-generation wireless
> has clearly suffered a setback.

Craig McCaw is no idiot. His company Clearwire owns bandwidth licenses
for WiMax to reach 200 million persons in the USA. WiMax will
eventually win the mobile broadband race. I may make an investment in
Clearwire stock, it is only at $15.