| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.02.2013 | Clearwire takes $80M from Sprint even as it’s flirting with Dish for a buyout | Clearwire’s fate is beginning to resemble a daytime soap opera.
The troubled company has grabbed $80 million in financing from Sprint — its longtime partner and majority stakeholder — potentially killing Dish’s buyout offer, reports Reuters... |
| 08.01.2013 | FreedomPop adds free calls & texts to free Internet to ‘basically screw AT&T and Verizon’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apparently, information does want to be free. And phone calls, and text messages. At least, if you’re a subscriber to FreedomPop, “Amer... |
| 08.01.2013 | FreedomPop adds free calls & texts to free Internet to ‘basically screw AT&T and Verizon’ | Apparently, information does want to be free. And phone calls, and text messages. At least, if you’re a subscriber to FreedomPop, “America’s free wireless Internet company.”
FreedomPop, which already offers free wireless Internet service, i... |
| 13.12.2012 | Telcos anxiously watch as Sprint’s Clearwire acquisition appears done | Clearwire rolls along, despite the fact that it continues to lose tens of millions every quarter.
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| 22.03.2012 | Skype co-founder’s FreedomPop wants to offer freemium mobile broadband | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
New details have emerged on mysterious wireless company FreedomPop’s plan to give wireless broadband to consumers at little or no cost,... |
| 19.03.2012 | NetZero launches super cheap Clearwire-backed 4G wireless service | NetZero surprised the world when it offered up free ad-supported Internet access back in 1998. Now the company will soon try to bring its cost-effective approach to Web access with a low-cost no-contract 4G wireless data service.
“Our servi... |
| 19.03.2012 | NetZero launches super cheap Clearwire-backed 4G wireless service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
NetZero surprised the world when it offered up free ad-supported Internet access back in 1998. Now the company will soon try to bring i... |
| 13.12.2011 | Sold! Clearwire Raises $715M from Stock Sale to Bankroll New Network | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Struggling wireless provider Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) has raised cash to beef up its network with new, faster technology.
Bellevue, WA-based Clearwire says it netted $715.5 mi... |
| 01.12.2011 | Sprint bails out Clearwire with $1.6B deal | Sprint has agreed to pay $1.6 billion to struggling wholesale wireless provider Clearwire over the next four years, the companies announced today.
The deal will give Sprint unlimited access to Clearwire’s WiMax wireless network, which is no... |
| 01.12.2011 | Clearwire Gets $1.6B from Sprint, Makes Debt Payment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Financially troubled wireless provider Clearwire and majority shareholder Sprint are keeping their seemingly reluctant partnership alive today, announcing a new injection of u... |
| 01.12.2011 | Sprint bails out Clearwire with $1.6B deal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sprint has agreed to pay $1.6 billion to struggli... |
| 10.03.2011 | Mobile Madness Speakers Dissect 4G, Enterprise Apps, New Interfaces; Zizzout Destealths with Mobile “Visual Marketplace” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you can measure a conference’s success from the volume level during the closing cocktail hour, then Xconomy’s Mobile Madness forum yesterday in Cambridge, MA, was a smash.
... |
| 17.10.2010 | Clearwire’s high-speed 4G wireless network to finally hit the big cities: New York, LA, and SF | Clearwire has been methodically building up its 4G wireless networking service around the country, starting with small markets and moving to big ones. Today, the companyannounced that it will launch in the big cities: New York on Nov. 1, Lo... |
| 17.10.2010 | Clearwire’s high-speed 4G wireless network to finally hit the big cities: New York, LA, and SF | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Clearwire has been methodically building up its 4G wireless networking service around the country, starting with small markets and movi... |
| 16.09.2010 | 3G, 3.5G, 4G, LTE & WiMAX: Beyond the Marketing Speak | Few consumer technologies are as encumbered by arcane acronyms as modern cell phones. Right now, the buzzword in the mobile industry is 4G. The problem, though, is that none of the current networks actually fulfill the International Telecom... |
| 30.06.2010 | Verizon may launch LTE 4G network on November 15, new phones to follow | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With Sprint steadily increasing the presence of its 4G network across the U.S., thanks to its partnership with Clearwire, other mobile ... |
| 30.06.2010 | Verizon may launch LTE 4G network on November 15, new phones to follow | With Sprint steadily increasing the presence of its 4G network across the U.S., thanks to its partnership with Clearwire, other mobile carriers will have to settle on their 4G plans soon. Thus far, we’ve been hearing that AT&T, T-Mobile... |
| 22.06.2010 | Clearwire Raises $290M More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Kirkland, WA-based wireless Internet service company Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) said late Monday that it has raised an additional $290.8 million through a public market rights o... |
| 06.05.2010 | Sprint partner Clearwire expands 4G, comes out with new phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
4G is the next big leap for the mobile industry, and that’s good news for mobile provider Clearwire. Yesterday the company announced ne... |
| 06.05.2010 | Sprint partner Clearwire expands 4G, comes out with new phones | 4G is the next big leap for the mobile industry, and that’s good news for mobile provider Clearwire. Yesterday the company announced new markets for its 4G network, which will bring the next-generation cellular technology to many smaller ci... |
| 13.01.2010 | Sprint lops another $10 bucks off their WiMax service | Currently only supported in around 30 cities in the US, Sprint’s WiMax service (as powered by Clear) isn’t exactly widespread. It’s a great service (in theory) and likely to pick up some fans as it rolls out to another 50+ markets by the en... |
| 24.11.2009 | Clearwire takes on $920M more to build out wireless networks | Clearwire is raising a lot more cash as it attempts to build a national high-speed, 4G wireless network using WiMax technology. Today, it announced $920 million in debt financing.
The company already raised a little less than $2 billion fro... |
| 24.11.2009 | Clearwire takes on $920M more to build out wireless networks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Clearwire is raising a lot more cash as it attemp... |
| 10.11.2009 | Clearwire raises an additional $1.5B to continue building its nationwide WiMAX network | Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks (to name a few) continue to bet big on Clearwire’s WiMAX nationwide wireless network. The foursome have just pumped an additional $1.494 billion into Clearwire’s coffer, with ano... |
| 15.09.2009 | Clearwire to bring long-range wireless web to Silicon Valley | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If anyplace could use high-speed wireless web access anytime, anywhere, it’s Silicon Valley. After years of waiting and building out ot... |
| 15.09.2009 | Clearwire to bring long-range wireless web to Silicon Valley | If anyplace could use high-speed wireless web access anytime, anywhere, it’s Silicon Valley. After years of waiting and building out other markets, Clearwire is finally going to launch its long-range 4G WiMax wireless Internet service in Si... |
| 30.06.2008 | Going Wireless at the W: A Few Thoughts From a Mobile Mixer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On Thursday night I found myself at the too-hip W Hotel in downtown Seattle, taking in a paidContent mixer hosted by publisher Rafat Ali and mocoNews.net principal corresponde... |
| 09.05.2008 | Why the WiMax Deal Is A Disaster, Part II (Or, How Craig McCaw Snookered Eric Schmidt) | The more I learn about the $3.2 billion deal announced earlier this week to salvage Clearwire’s and Sprint’s WiMax businesses by merging them together, the more I am convinced that someone got snookered. And that someone was Google CEO Eric... |
| 26.03.2008 | Roundup: Motorola splits up, cable giants back WiMax venture, and more | Here’s the latest action (updated):
Struggling cell phone manufacturer Motorola announced it would split itself into two different companies. Under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, the company will divide itself into a cell phone... |
| 02.11.2007 | Roundup: Medio v. Google, Sprint jettisoning WiMax?, BugLabs & more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Medio’s roar turning to a squeal?
2. Sprint changing WiMax plans?
3. AOL rumored to be considering buying ad targeting network Quigo for $300 million
4. Bug Labs, for open-sourced electronic devices
5. Semantic ... |
| 19.09.2007 | Analysis: Is WiMAX Headed For a Busted Launch? | Why does it seem like WiMAX, to mix a metaphor, has no clothes?
WiMAX, also known as IEEE 802.16, was designed to serve as wireless form of metropolitan broadband, blanketing hundreds of miles with multi-megabit wireless networking. The sta... |
| 19.07.2007 | Sprint and Clearwire to Build Nationwide WiMax Network | Today Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have announced plans to jointly construct the nations first mobile broadband network using WiMax technology, and to further promote the global development of WiMax-based services. This network is being desi... |
| 12.03.2007 | Roundup: March Madness, Starbucks start-ups, Zannel and more | Here’s the latest action:
March Madness alerts — Palo Alto mobile search company 4INFO will send you an alert in the final minutes of any of NCAA March Madness game that looks like it could be an upset. It sends final scores too. To sign up... |
| 09.03.2007 | Wall Street welcomes WiMax, Clearwire has $600M IPO, sort of | Upate: While Wall Street bankers welcomed the company, they’ve since had a hard time selling it to the public, with the company’s shares falling on the first day. We’ll track this.
See our story here, yesterday, 3/9/07
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| 08.03.2007 | Wall Street welcomes WiMax, Clearwire has $600M IPO | Clearwire, the company that is building WiMax, a new wireless technology boosts the performance of wireless broadband, has raised $600 million in its initial public offering. It begins trading today.
Clearwire, of Kirkland, Wash., reported ... |
| 20.12.2006 | Clearwire files for $400M IPO, despite huge and growing losses — another Vonage? | Clearwire, the company that is trying to roll out unproven WiMax broadband technology, has filed for an IPO, even though it is more and more money as it builds out its technology.
WiMax differs from WiFi in that it has much longer ranges â€... |
| 07.09.2006 | Yikes. Clearwire now has $1.1 billion for WiMax | Clearwire Corporation, the Kirkland, Wash. company that is building out a WiMax network that offers stronger, wider broadband wireless access, today announced yesterday it has gotten additional equity investment of $100 million, and debt fi... |
| 26.10.2004 | McCaw’s Clearwire Goes WiMAX, Intel Makes ‘Significant Investment’ | Here’s one way to jumpstart WiMAX deployment: make a “significant investment” in a wireless broadband company that promises to use your technology and products.
The dollar amounts and other fine print have yet to be revealed, but that’s the... |
