No official announcement from the company yet, but from an advertising perspective it looks like Clearwire is getting ready to launch its service in Chicago, one of the markets Sprint had hoped to launch with its Xohm service in 2008. Checking out the Chicago Tribune home page on Jan. 1, you can “clearly” see the Clearwire ads running front and center:
We tried typing in some Chicago addresses into the Clear service-finder page, but didn’t get a positive result for service being available in Chicago. Still, if the ads are starting to run, can the service launch be far behind?
Not that a quick debut of Chicago would be a surprise — after all, the network has been ready to go for several months now, with Motorola folks telling us at WiMax World in October that the towers and back-end were all but finished. Take a ride along with us and see what kind of speeds Clearwire might be able to deliver in the Windy City:
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