Sprint and Clearwire Venture promises a fully-open, "third pipe" WiMAX network
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Clearwire promises a fully-open, "third pipe" WiMAX network
By Nate Anderson | Published: June 12, 2008 - 11:19AM CT
Some spectrum watchers were disappointed by the results of the recent 700MHz auction. They had grand dreams of Google swooping in, dropping millions of dollars, and picking up a nationwide license that it would use to offer high-speed wireless broadband that could be accessed from any device, would support any application, and which would be resold at wholesale rates to anyone else—"line-sharing" come to wireless. While the dream vanished beneath the cold reality of Google's merely strategic bidding, the ba...
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Clearwire promises a fully-open, "third pipe" WiMAX network
By Nate Anderson | Published: June 12, 2008 - 11:19AM CT
Some spectrum watchers were disappointed by the results of the recent 700MHz auction. They had grand dreams of Google swooping in, dropping millions of dollars, and picking up a nationwide license that it would use to offer high-speed wireless broadband that could be accessed from any device, would support any application, and which would be resold at wholesale rates to anyone else—"line-sharing" come to wireless. While the dream vanished beneath the cold reality of Google's merely strategic bidding, the ba...
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