MuniWireless

This belongs to the “you’ve got to be kidding me” news of the day. Nokia announced that it is stopping production of its wildly popular N810 WiMAX Tablet, stating that “[t]he Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition has reached the expected end of its life cycle.”

Bizarre for two reasons. First, nomadic / WiMAX networks are finally getting deployed around the world. Second, what life cycle are they speaking of? It’s not as if this tablet was sold everywhere and people were getting…

We are attending the Clearwire official launch of WiMax services in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, getting lots of fun stuff, videos and pictures. Good information too. Among the bits of info we will explore more later:

Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff said the company will continue to experiment with pricing models in different markets, to find out where the sweet spot is for potential customers. So what is offered in Baltimore, for instance, may not be the same as Portland. A bit confusing,…

The year has barely begun and the bad news seems to get getting worse. Intel has released preliminary Q4 2008 financials which are quite grim: revenue is down 23 percent year over year, 20 percent down from Q3 2008. Intel also says because of the dramatic decline in the share price of Clearwire, it has to write off close to $1 billion. In fact, it expects a loss from equity investments and interest to be between $1.1 billion and $1.2…

It’s been said that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but the PR folks at Clearwire must be scratching their heads in wonder at how a big newspaper like the Chicago Tribune could do such a poor job of reporting on the WiMax service that is coming to that city soon.

In a story published Jan. 3 that is getting wide recognition across the Web — multiple diggs, prominence on TechMeme and callouts from blogs like GigaOM — the Tribune…

It made sense to us that small-to-medium-size businesses might be some of the early adopters of mobile WiMax services in the U.S., especially companies with “local nomads,” workers who roam a lot but in a somewhat local region (which could be covered by a single metro-area WiMax service). Seems like the Clearwire folks are thinking the same way, as evidenced by this new page touting business-specific service plans for their Portland, Ore., network.

While the in-office broadband prices seem competitive —…