When analogue radio networks were replaced with digital networks in the 1990s, naming them was straightforward: They were second-generation, or 2G, networks

Clearwire Communications, LLC, an operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, the provider of the largest 4G network in the United States, announced today a series of enhancements brought to its CLEAR 4G network in Austin. According to the company, the improvements were made in anticipation of the thousands of visitors that will arrive in Aus...

Clearwire's mobile WiMAX subscribers are burning through around 7 GB of data per month, according to a company executive, and the company's business plan seems to be predicated on keeping up with that demand. Mike Sievert, Clearwire's chief commercial officer, disclosed the statistic in an interview with GigaOM. Sievert said the company's deep spectrum position--it owns up to 1...

Stacey Higginbotham of GigOm has an interview Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer at Clearwire. Sievert said it cost Clearwire “somewhere in the mid-$20 range” per person to build out its WiMAX network, an estimate that relies on several things, from the cost of the spectrum to the number of the towers Clearwire needs to deploy. In

While 3G is an acceptable rate of speed for most people, theres nothing stopping progression. And while Sprint is a bit ahead of the game, working with Clearwire to bring their 4G technology to a couple cities already, Verizon isnt bothered by it. Theyre still moving ahead with their plans to launch their first LTE-capable

Sprint's upcoming HTC Supersonic for Clearwire is increasingly getting attention, and now it turns out Verizon Wireless plans to release LTE capable phones in mid-2011.

It's no longer a question of which technology U.S. wireless carriers will use for their next-generation network technology, but a question of when they'll use it. With the exception of Clearwire and its wholesale network partners like Sprint Nextel, Comcast and Time Warner, service providers in the U.S. have charted a migration path that will have most of them deploying LT...

Cable provider Charter Communications, which has yet to publicly reveal a wireless strategy, indicated it is keeping an eye on what its fellow cable operators are doing in that arena and may consider working with Clearwire, which is heavily embracing wholesale partners, said Chief Marketing Officer Ted Schremp during the company's earnings call. "We're keeping a keen ...

WiMAX news took form in Sprints filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that ties short term bonuses for top executives to the success of WiMAX launches in the U.S. 10 percent of the bonus is tied to the sale of Clear, WiMAX services offered by Clearwire. Sprint owns...

Infonetics Research said the WiMAX market is coming out of the recession, posting three consecutive quarters of revenue growth for 802.16e equipment and devices. "With Clearwire in the U.S. announcing strong quarterly results, Yota in Russia expanding rapidly, and others such as UQ in Japan being aggressive, the WiMAX business model seems to be working," noted Richard Webb, the firm's directi...