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Sidecut Consumer Guide to WiMax: Now Free!

Want a detailed explanation of the recent launch of WiMax services in Baltimore, and how WiMax’s combination of speed, mobility, and innovative pricing might satisfy the growing consumer demand for an always-on Internet experience? Then download the Sidecut Reports Consumer Guide to WiMax, now available for FREE DOWNLOAD from the Sidecut Reports site. Prepared in an easy-to-read style with… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on December 8, 2008 at 2:37am — No Comments

Sprint, Clearwire Get Set to Merge

Thanks to the FCC's approval, the clock is now really ticking forward on the Sprint-Clearwire merger that will create the "New" Clearwire and its nationwide WiMax network. While we still need to see a Clearwire shareholder vote later this month, the number everyone wants to know --… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on November 11, 2008 at 7:10pm — No Comments

WiMax Test Drive -- Roamin' on Xohm in Chicago

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth? We can't think of any better way to illustrate how WiMax could change the consumer broadband experience than with a bird's-eye view of mobile WiMax in action -- albeit on the Xohm "beta" network in Chicago, which at the time of this filming was not yet commercially available.

Thanks to the folks at Clearwire and their mob… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on November 3, 2008 at 10:50pm — No Comments

It's Official: Xohm WiMax Launch Party is Oct. 8

After all the doubts, deals and delays, the biggest launch of WiMax services in the U.S. will become official on Oct. 8, when Intel, Sprint, Clearwire and others host a… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on September 23, 2008 at 6:27pm — 2 Comments

Boston, Philly, Dallas next for Sprint's WiMax

They're whoopin' it up at Sprint headquarters, as the Xohm WiMax folks there celebrate hitting an internal infrastructure deployment date well ahead of schedule. A confident and happy Xohm president Barry West spoke with us by phone Thursday afternoon for an update on the inaugural Xohm launch in Baltimore in September, as well as device, bandwidth and spectrum issues for both Sprint's solo launches in 2008 and the expected merged operations in the… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on September 2, 2008 at 1:16am — No Comments

A Closer Look at Clearwire's Spectrum

Ever since we put together our first Sidecut Report on WiMax and its comprehensive look at the impact of the New Clearwire deal on the U.S. market, we have been intrigued by the prospect of the 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings that Sprint and the old Clearwire brought to the table. So instead of just wondering about it,… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on August 24, 2008 at 12:48pm — No Comments

AT&T: We Like WiMax!

Readers of our Sidecut Report on WiMax weren't surprised to read in USA Today that the big telco likes WiMax, despite a strategic direction tilted in favor of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its main 4G strategy. In our report, we offered some details of AT&T's current WiMax deployments, which include one in Alaska and one in P… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on August 1, 2008 at 8:14pm — No Comments

AT&T Challenges Clearwire-Sprint Merger

As we predicted in our Sidecut Report on WiMax, the "new" Clearwire deal, with its heavy-hitter lineup of investors and their $3.2 billion in capital, was sure to attract the attention of the big telcos, namely AT&T and Verizon. In our predictions we guessed that the big telcos would turn up the heat on Clearwire any way they could, and today it looks like we were right since AT&T jus… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on July 25, 2008 at 4:07pm — 2 Comments

WiMax Vendor Soma Scores $51 M

Too late to call the company for more info, but we did want to note that San Francisco WiMax gear vendor Soma Networks announced Friday that it had secured a new $51 million round of financing, from investors including Daiwa Securities Group, Ridgeway Capital Partners and others. Soma, whose executives we interviewed as part of our Sidecut Report on WiMax, had told us they… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on July 19, 2008 at 12:27am — No Comments

The Sidecut Interview: Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff

Even though he's busy managing day-to-day operations for the "old" Clearwire as he also works on integration issues for the "new" Clearwire and its planned nationwide WiMax network, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff still found time to talk to Sidecut Reports for a mid-summer update this week. In this edited transcript of our phone… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on July 15, 2008 at 3:36pm — 3 Comments

WiMax Update: Waiting for Intel Silicon; Xohm Looks to Sept. Launch; Clearwire Preps for Deal Close

It was sort of a perfect storm of WiMax information Monday, as an Intel Centrino2 briefing followed our personal interview with Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff, the latter for an update on the progress of the new Clearwire national WiMax network. While it will take a day or two for us to process all the info from our call with Ben Wol… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on July 15, 2008 at 11:44am — No Comments

WiMax Report Excerpt: The WiMax TCO Advantage

After reading earlier this week about DigitalBridge's launch of Mobile WiMax services in Jackson Hole, Wyo., we decided it's a good time to give blog readers a taste of our Sid… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on July 11, 2008 at 7:43pm — No Comments

A Few WiMax Questions for Frost & Sullivan

Without having seen any full report, it's perhaps not fair to take a shot at the analysts at Frost & Sullivan for having what looks like some weak takes on the WiMax market. But there are certainly some questions folks should be asking about the press release put out Wednesday by F&S that all but predicts Mobile WiMax's death before the technology's even out of the cradle. Since we have just complete… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 26, 2008 at 11:34pm — 4 Comments

Clearwire WiMax Gets September Start Date in U.S.

Well, we said it was Game On, WiMax, and now we know the when: According to Sprint/Clearwire WiMax guru Barry West, the "new" Clearwire network will officially launch this September in Baltimore, followed by Chicago and Washington D.C. in the fourth quarter. As I told a reporter here at the… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 19, 2008 at 2:40pm — 7 Comments

The 3G iPhone = Clearwire's Biggest Hurdle

After a week of all 3G iPhone all the time, it's pretty clear that the performance hurdle is being set for the "new" Clearwire and its planned nationwide WiMax network: Devices will need to look and perform reasonably like an iPhone, at as-fast or faster speeds, for lower prices, to get any trac… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 12, 2008 at 1:37am — 5 Comments

WiMax Patent Pool, Looking a bit Shallow

Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday's big WiMax announcement, about a "patent pool" spearheaded by Cisco, Intel, Samsung and others, aimed at reducing the amounts developers (especially device developers) might have to pay for WiMax-related patents. For Clearwire, Sprint and other service providers, having a group with Cisco and Alcatel/Lucent in it can't hurt, since both th… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 11, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Cisco, Alcatel/Lucent Getting Behind Clearwire WiMax?

Is networking hardware giant Cisco ready to throw its hat a bit deeper into the U.S. WiMax market ring? Looks that way from the press conference invite that just landed in our in-box, inviting us to a webcast on Monday, June 9, that will discuss "a new initiative by industry leaders in mobility to stimulate more innovation and new entrants into the WiMAX ecosystem." The roster of attendees in… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 4, 2008 at 11:37pm — 3 Comments

Comcast and the WiMax Drive-By

It was interesting to read last week that one of the things that convinced Comcast CEO Brian Roberts of WiMax's viability was a demonstration of how well mobile WiMax can work, even at 50 mph. In a report last week from Light Reading's cable guy Jeff Baumgartner, Roberts (whose company poured just north of a billion bucks into the… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 2, 2008 at 11:44am — 1 Comment

Five Things You Didn't Know About the Clearwire WiMax Deal

There was no shortage of headlines after the historic May 7 announcement of the joint venture and $3.2 billion in funding that formed the "new" Clearwire, and its plans for a nationwide WiMax network. But in the course of putting together our comprehensive research report on th… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on May 30, 2008 at 1:02am — No Comments

What's Next for the New Clearwire?

As we rework our recent WiMax report to include the details of last week's game-changing announcement, it's a good time to ask what comes next for the new Clearwire and its bigger, grander plans. After comparing the news to the research we did for our initial report, two changes stand out: First, the ne… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on May 15, 2008 at 11:50pm — 1 Comment