Comments on: Sprint Completes Clearwire Merger, Clear Will Replace XOHM http://www.phonenews.com/sprint-completes-clearwire-clear-will-replace-xohm-5650/ Providing complete coverage of the wireless industry, cell phone news, and future 4G technologies. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:01:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Christopher Price http://www.phonenews.com/sprint-completes-clearwire-clear-will-replace-xohm-5650/comment-page-1/#comment-26770 Christopher Price Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:47:52 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/?p=5650#comment-26770 To answer your question, Alec, Clear and Clearwire are indeed the same company from a corporate standpoint. However, because Clear and Clearwire service are not yet consolidated... you will often be told that they are different organizations. From a technological standpoint they are. The company is not on the brink of failure. Rather, the new company just was launched with funding from across the industry. Sprint, Google, Intel, Comcast, and Time Warner are the top backers of "The New Clear". Think of Clearwire as version zero of WiMAX technology. Clear service is version 1.0 of WiMAX technology. So, the company is now upgrading Clearwire to the same standard that Clear is using. That's happening right now. The old technology from Clearwire, is being upgraded with the new Clear technology gained from Sprint (Sprint XOHM and Clear will be the first to be unified). After that is done, within the next year or so, Clear, Clearwire, and XOHM will all be one and the same from a technological (and business) standpoint. It's also why Clear is only in Portland right now. Clear is the future, but XOHM and then Clearwire have to be added to what you have today. The last thing Clear wants to tell you, is that you can use Clearwire and/or XOHM service... you can't... yet. When they are done, you'll be able to access all of those existing WiMAX areas, and many more as the service is rolled out nationwide. To answer your question, Alec, Clear and Clearwire are indeed the same company from a corporate standpoint.

However, because Clear and Clearwire service are not yet consolidated… you will often be told that they are different organizations. From a technological standpoint they are.

The company is not on the brink of failure. Rather, the new company just was launched with funding from across the industry. Sprint, Google, Intel, Comcast, and Time Warner are the top backers of “The New Clear”.

Think of Clearwire as version zero of WiMAX technology. Clear service is version 1.0 of WiMAX technology. So, the company is now upgrading Clearwire to the same standard that Clear is using.

That’s happening right now. The old technology from Clearwire, is being upgraded with the new Clear technology gained from Sprint (Sprint XOHM and Clear will be the first to be unified). After that is done, within the next year or so, Clear, Clearwire, and XOHM will all be one and the same from a technological (and business) standpoint.

It’s also why Clear is only in Portland right now. Clear is the future, but XOHM and then Clearwire have to be added to what you have today. The last thing Clear wants to tell you, is that you can use Clearwire and/or XOHM service… you can’t… yet. When they are done, you’ll be able to access all of those existing WiMAX areas, and many more as the service is rolled out nationwide.

]]> By: Alec http://www.phonenews.com/sprint-completes-clearwire-clear-will-replace-xohm-5650/comment-page-1/#comment-26769 Alec Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:31:26 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/?p=5650#comment-26769 I'm a Clear user in Portland, Oregon. But whenever I ask whether Clear and Clearwire are the same company, I get told "no." Yet this article, published last year, indicates otherwise. Today, I asked a Clearwire rep, via chat, whether my Clear WiMax modem was portable to Clearwire coverage in Syracuse, New York. Again, they said no - that Clear and Clearwire are not the same company. Is there a problem in this so-called merger ... or are these companies tetering on the brink of failure? I’m a Clear user in Portland, Oregon. But whenever I ask whether Clear and Clearwire are the same company, I get told “no.” Yet this article, published last year, indicates otherwise.

Today, I asked a Clearwire rep, via chat, whether my Clear WiMax modem was portable to Clearwire coverage in Syracuse, New York. Again, they said no – that Clear and Clearwire are not the same company. Is there a problem in this so-called merger … or are these companies tetering on the brink of failure?

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