Clearwire has announced that its Clear branded WiMax 4G service is now available to residents of Harrisburg, Reading, Lancaster and York along with surrounding suburbs, covering 740,000 people in 271 square miles. Sprint has also followed suit, launching its Sprint 4G service simultaneously with Clear in the same service area.
Humberto Saabedra
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lol Sprint follows Suit, its the exact same service, This should be a Sprint Headline, not a clearwire headline since Sprint owns the majority of it.
Shakes head.
Sprint does not own Clearwire, contrary to your mistaken belief. The new company is split between cable companies and Google with Sprint owning a minority stake and leasing service as a virtual operator.
With a stake of ~55%, wouldn’t that make Sprint a majority owner, Humberto?
http://tinyurl.com/257oun5
It’s a majority stake in terms of ownership, but Sprint doesn’t hold a controlling interest, which is held by Clearwire itself.
Sprint holds that stake merely for appearances. They do not actually “own” the company in the way everyone thinks, as Clearwire still controls day to day operations and makes the major decisions on pricing for consumers and wholesale access. .
Sprint is partnering up with Clearwire to provide Wimax Service. Both are building 1 unified network but each building in a different geographic region to avoid overlap. Each will be selling Wimax under their own brands, possibly different brands for the cable companies (which is stupid). So technically Sprint and Clearwire are both launching the same network in PA.