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Editor’s Note: The following post is an excerpt from our new report, Goin’ Mobile: How WiMax Could Change the Consumer Broadband Experience. In this excerpt we talk about how flexible, innovative pricing schemes from main provider Clearwire may help drive the adoption of WiMax services by consumers. The report, which updates our previous consumer guide with the latest in market launch information from Clearwire’s Atlanta, Las Vegas and Portland markets, is available for purchase from our website for $4.95.

WIMAX PRICING,…

One reason I was looking forward to last week’s trip to Vegas for CTIA was to see if my newest connectivity plaything — a U300 WiMax/3G USB dongle on loan from Sprint — would actually discover and hook up to the still-being-built Clearwire network in Sin City. If you were following this blog, you know that the historic linkup did take place. What was more impressive to me about the device, however, was the simplicity and robustness of the accompanying…

Before Clearwire Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CLWR) first quarterly conference call as a fully merged entity on March 5, we asked some questions about what the company might reveal. So how did Clearwire do in answering them? Let’s go to the scorecard!

We asked: Where else will Clearwire launch services, and when? Clearwire answered: Lots of places, including Atlanta and Las Vegas in the summer of 2009; Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, and Charlotte, N.C. later in the year; and a re-launch…

Even though Verizon CTO Dick Lynch tried to stay away from the download-speed numbers game when we spoke to him recently about the company’s plans for Long Term Evolution, you can’t hide from the mainstream tech media’s need for simple figures for long. So it’s not a surprise to see a whole bunch of people taking the “LTE trial speeds of 50-60 Mbps” from Lynch’s presentation at the Mobile World Congress this week and running with that as a projected…