[TriLUG] Buh bye ClearWire

Danielle White via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Sep 14 16:12:38 EDT 2015


I had no idea that WiMAX was at all a thing still. After Nokia withdrew the N810 WiMAX tablet after less than a year (poor sales due to low utility if that capability) that WiMAX was dead seemed apparent.

Danielle

On September 14, 2015 3:03:37 PM EDT, Reginald Reed via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>No shock there, it was clear, no pun intended, when Sprint acquired the
>remaining shares of Clearwire that the goal was to shut it down and
>move
>the spectrum to the Sprint network.  WiMax was nearly dead as soon as
>it
>went online.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwire
>
>On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:04 AM, tj via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
>wrote:
>
>> I remember  that Sprint was part of clear(clearwire) business.
>> does this mean sprint bought whole clear to get clear's spectrum?
>> if does, this is very reasonable to to get spectrum quickly and let
>clear
>> customers on the dust :|
>>
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