Intel Backs Clearwire in Wimax Play Paves the way for WImax with cash Wireless broadband provider Clearwire backed away from IPO plans this week after receiving $900 million in funding from Intel and Motorola, who are eager to see the Wimax standard succeed. As the New York Times explores, the investment in Clearwire is Intel Capital's biggest to date - the unit rarely investing more than $5 million in emerging technologies.
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 dmh748
join:2002-03-07
Boston, MA | Is Covad's Nextweb next? Covad's Nextweb seems to be further along than anyone in actually rolling out Wimax, although not the mobile flavor.
Will Intel provide funding for them too, or are Covad/Nextweb too far along for any kind of "startup funding" ? | |
|  | | | Re: Is Covad's Nextweb next? I had nextweb for my business for about 3 months. We had 6 outages, including 1 complete day of no service. They were killing my company so I dropped them. I would stay away from them, if you need truly 99.999% up time | |
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Boston, MA | Re: Is Covad's Nextweb next? Was that before or after Covad acquired them? Could you be more specific about the nature of the outage? Curious if it turned out to be server side equipment, client side equipment, random interference, or unknown and fixed itself ?
With the major broadcast networks using Covad/Nextweb for Wimax I'm guessing that these problems are now fixed.
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»biz.yahoo.com/bw/060627/20060627···tml?.v=1
I've had Covad DSL for over 3 years at another location and it has been rock-solid, so I would assume that when their operations people take over management of Wimax they'll make it similarly rock-solid, if not already done. | |
| | | | | | Re: Is Covad's Nextweb next? As someone with pretty good knowledge of Nextweb's network, it is not a large Wimax player yet. Actually a company available on a national basis (Towerstream) has a larger deployed base of Wimax.
As to the press release, most of those events only need broadband for a relatively short period of time, not long enough to notice the type of outages that will kill a business. As to major broadcast networks, if ABC pays for connection to an exec's home I can claim I have ABC for a client so it doesn't mean they actually supply meaningful service to any of the networks.
Covad is already publicly traded so funding is a bit different.
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| | yawn, bring it on already. Wimax + last mile broadband.
Boy i haven't heard THAT ever../cackles with laughter | |
| | | It's STILL "just around the corner"??? So after all the BS and announcements of product roll outs and test installs etc. etc. you mean to tell me that WIMAX is STILL "just around the corner".....LOL!
NOTHING TO SEE HERE.......move along! | |
| | | | Re: It's STILL "just around the corner"??? Still around the corner for me. At this rate I think I'll see cable before WiMax. It reminds me of a Bellsouth tech telling me dsl should be available at my house withing a year. That was 1999. | |
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| Actually there does seem to be something to see here... Just for kicks, I checked their coverage maps. Seem to be in quite a few mid-sized cities already (e.g. Boise, Anchorage, Eugene, Stockton)...so I think it is not fair to say that its "just around the corner." Clearwire also seems to be moving into some of the larger metro areas too (Seattle-Tacoma, Raleigh, Jacksonville) in 2006. I'd be interested to see how they do. | |
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Jacksonville, FL | Not surprised Intel has been funding Clearwire for over a year now, so this is not surprising.
Clearwire is going to need the money to fund the transfer of their existing customers to WiMax.....whenever it comes out.
They are using leased spectrum from the school districts right now.
This announcement tells me that they are closer to an actual deployment schedule.
After they deploy, I wonder what will happen to all of the "free" internet schools are getting from Clearwire for using their spectrum? | |
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| Re: Not surprised said by ricep5:Intel has been funding Clearwire for over a year now, so this is not surprising. Clearwire is going to need the money to fund the transfer of their existing customers to WiMax.....whenever it comes out. They are using leased spectrum from the school districts right now. This announcement tells me that they are closer to an actual deployment schedule. After they deploy, I wonder what will happen to all of the "free" internet schools are getting from Clearwire for using their spectrum? Wow, so Comcast AND Clearwire are giving the schools free internet. I am in Jacksonville too, and I know that Comcast has provided the schools with free internet access since high speed has been available. It is provided for education, and also for server space in some locations (since the schools are usually in the middle of 4 or more different major neighborhoods). What would they want with a Clearwire connection if they can get 1.5Mbps symetrical for free with a UBR900 router/modem? Anyway, my point is that the schools won't suffer at all, considering their MAIN provider is the cable company.
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