Clearwire to Launch WiMAX in 10 Markets September 1

Clearwire announced today that it will launch its CLEAR 4G mobile broadband service in 10 markets on September 1: Boise, Idaho; Bellingham, Wash.; and eight markets throughout Texas, including Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Killeen/Temple, Waco and Wichita Falls. Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Philadelphia and Seattle also will launch in 2009.

It’s been a little more than a year since the Clearwire partnership was first announced, and more than six months since the first cities were launched.

To date, Clearwire offers WiMAX service in four markets: Portland, Atlanta, Baltimore and Las Vegas. The company says it’s on track to launch in 80 markets, covering 120 people, by the end of 2010, which gives the company a little more than 17 months to make good on its promises, and pacify its investors.

As part of the venture, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks have agreed to resell the mobile broadband service under their own brand names. Last month “Comcast High Speed 2go” launched in Portland, and expanded into the Atlanta market last week. Also late last week, Time Warner Cable confirmed its plans to launch in four U.S. markets, including Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., by the end of this year.

Read Clearwire’s release.

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