MuniWireless

In news announcements today cable giant Comcast announced that it would start reselling Clearwire’s WiMax services, a business move they promised earlier this year.

From the press release, the main pricing plan for the service (which they are calling Comcast High-Speed 2go™) is a combo of wired cable broadband and local Clearwire WiMax for $49.99, or cable plus a hybrid 3G/4G card for $69.99:

The $49.99 Fast Pack Metro service includes Comcast’s 12 Mbps home Internet service, a free WiFi router for…

Less than six months after first introducing WiMax services in Portland, Ore., Clearwire is already starting to mix in some aggressive pricing promotions, including a new unlimited-use home and mobile package for $55 per month.

In a call late last week following up on the company’s first-quarter earnings announcement, Clearwire chief strategy officer Scott Richardson said that some better-than-expected network performance was partially behind the idea of the new “bundled” pricing plans, which hadn’t previously been available in Portland. Richardson also…

Reading through the very positive story in Telephony about how AT&T is “doubling” its network capacity, and wondering where reporter Kevin Fitchard — usually pretty solid in things telecom — gets the numbers to back up his assertation that AT&T “has reams of cellular and PCS spectrum” that it could throw at digital data should its 3G networks clog up more than they already are now.

For one, I don’t believe that AT&T has “reams” of spectrum, at any bandwidth that…

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…