CTIA announced the 2009 keynote speaker lineup for its April show in Las Vegas. Former Vice President Al gore is the top headline speaker, but he will also be joined by some wireless industry heavyweights. T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson, Robert Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, Mike Lazaridis, Research In Motion's co-CEO and Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff will a...

Clearwire and Intel announced today that they will host a press conference on January 6, 2009, in Portland, Ore., introducing the city to Clear and the “Let’s be Clear” campaign promoting the region’s first 4G mobile WiMAX network for next-generation communications services. Speakers at the press conference will include Ben Wolff, Clearwire’s Chief Executive Officer,

Clearwire's CEO talks about building out WiMax nationwide, finding Wimax's killer app and surviving the economic downturn.

It's all clear sailing now for the new Clearwire. Having managed to solidify its merger with Sprint's Xohm business unit and hold on to $3.2 billion in investment money from Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House Networks, Intel and Google in tough economic times, the mobile WiMAX pioneer is ready to go to market with a service branded "Clear." Clear, said Ben Wolff, Clearwire's CEO, "i...

Today, Ben Wolff, CEO of Clearwire, held a conference call reviewing the $3.2B investment by Comcast, Time-Warner, Intel, Google, and Brighthouse Networks. Wolff said their spectrum holdings were “twice that of the 700 Mhz spectrum which sold for almost $20B” and said that their all IP Network would deliver a compelling value proposition, “reinventing wireless”.

While Clearwire still isn’t revealing the details of its WiMAX rollout plan, reports Telephony Magazine, CEO of New Clearwire, Ben Wolff, said that will come after the Sprint deal closes. That will probably be after the stockholder meeting on November 20th. Clearwire’s trial in Portland—its first planned market launch—is now hosting 200 friendly users. In

During Clearwire's third quarter earnings call with analysts this morning, CEO Ben Wolff said that shareholders will vote Nov. 20 on the whether or not to approve the firm's merger with Sprint's WiMAX business. Wolff says that the merger is still on track for a year-end close pending the shareholder vote and some other administrative items. Wolff reiterated that once the merger...

It’s not “show friends.” It’s show *business*. – Jerry Macquire Ben Wolff, CEO of Clearwire, recently told USA Today that by the end of 2009, WiMax will be available to 60 million to 80 million US consumers and by 2010 they expect 140 million will be able to get the signal. … Read Original Post

Ben Wolff, CEO of Clearwire, recently told USAToday that by the end of 2009, WiMax will be available to 60 million to 80 million US consumers and by 2010 they expect 140 million will be able to get the signal. Sprint’s Xohm mobile broadband service recently launched in Baltimore. It will roll out in

At the WiMAX World convention in Chicago this week, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff discussed his company’s plans to deploy WiMAX in the United States, what benefits WiMAX services will have for enterprise users, and what is WiMAX’s niche in the mobile broadband market as a whole.