Telecompetitor

Clearwire announced fourth quarter and total year 2007 results today, ending the year with 394K subscribers. Clearwire grew their subscriber base by 91% over comparable numbers from year end 2006 and added 47K subs in the fourth quarter. Clearwire is now in 50 markets (including 4 international markets) and covers 16.3 million people. Clearwire generated $151 million in revenue for all of 2007 and ended the ...

Xohm’s internal corporate champion at Sprint, Barry West, is indicating its on course for Xohm, announcing a commercial launch timeframe of April 2008. West made these comments at CES on a WiMAX focused panel. There has been so much speculation about the future of Xohm that I don’t think anyone would have been surprised if Sprint pulled the plug ...

Dan Hesse is officially the man at Sprint Nextel, after resigning as CEO of Embarq to take on the huge challenge of righting the Sprint ship as their new CEO. Hesse is no stranger to Sprint, where he was appointed the CEO of Sprint’s wireline assets in 2005 prior to the Embarq spin off. Prior to Sprint/Embarq, Hesse spent over 20 years ...

Sprint will be “soft” launching WiMAX, branded as Xohm, in the Baltimore/Washington and Chicago markets this month. The service will be available to employees in downtown areas of the markets for beta testing. The soft launch will be followed by customer trials in the first quarter 2008, with commercial availability in the second quarter. Sprint plans to go with portable WiMAX out of the gate, ...

All of the recent news about open access may have some interesting competitive implications, and WiMAX may not be a benefactor. The success of open access initiatives is very dependent on the availability of “open” devices. In other words, the proliferation of "open" wireless devices will drive the success or failure of open access. If there are limited devices, there are few opportunities to connect to an open ...

Wall Street analysts predicted several years ago that cable companies would have first mover advantage with triple play bundles, but within a few years telcos would battle back. It looks like a pretty accurate prediction. Cable companies like Cox, Comcast and Cablevision have executed their triple play strategy quite well and amassed a solid triple play subscriber base. As a result they have higher ARPU rates and have managed to continue ...

Sprint unveiled its WiMAX product, which will be branded as Xohm (pronounced Zoam). Xohm will do a soft launch in 2007, with coverage for 100 million pops by the end of 2008. Sprint made clear that their WiMAX strategy goes well beyond broadband wireless laptop cards. Their partners, who include Intel, Samsung, and Motorola, intend to deliver 50 million WiMAX embedded devices. ...