Mobile WiMAX is now primed and ready for clearly defined markets. The standard is in place, components are available, and regulatory conditions are favorable for industry growth and adoption. New report from WTRS identifies winning markets, drivers and challenges for WiMAX within the wider wireless broadband arena.

Mountain View, CA December 1, 2008 - Fueled both by consumer demand for entertainment and communication as well as governmental regulatory and economic incentives, companies at all levels of the broadband services and infrastructure value chain are developing new technologies and enabling new services that will continue to push the US broadband market forward over the next 4-6 years.

"Recent economic uncertainty will affect the consumer market but will not greatly influence the adoption of WiMAX and other emerging wireless technologies in communications sectors," according to Kirsten West, principal analyst with WTRS. "One exception to this is the emergence of WiMAX services targeted at the mobile professional, empowering the connected laptop 'on the go'. This is an application which will likely be negatively impacted by reduced corporate spending due to expense controls that will negatively impact the roll-out and applications targeting the mobile professional."

Combination of Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX Businesses with $3.2 Billion Cash Investment from Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google, and Bright House Networks Creates New Opportunities for Next-Generation Services

Clearwire Spectrum Holdings to Enable Unmatched Wireless Network Capacity for Broadband Services

Clearwire’s Mobile WiMAX Services to be Branded “Clear”™

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Dec. 1, 2008 – Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWRD for the first 20 trading days and CLWR thereafter) today announced that it has completed the transaction with Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) to combine their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. The new company retains the Clearwire name and expects to build the first nationwide 4G mobile broadband network focused on meeting the evolving needs and demands for Internet-based communications services. In addition, Clearwire has received a $3.2 billion investment from Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks. The transaction with Sprint and the new cash investment were completed on the terms originally announced on May 7, 2008.

Clearwire announced today in a conference call that the new brand for its WiMAX services will be called Clear and the new marketing slogan will to be Let's be clear.

XOHM brand will change in the near future to Clear. Clearwire also mentioned that the other venture partners like Time Warner and Comcast will offer WiMAX under their own brand as part of the service bundles. Google will help with new applications and services and one of the applications mentioned was Android.

One of the most interesting remarks was about LTE. If LTE standard will be widely adopted in the future the company will adopt that technology too as they don't see WiMAX and LTE as two competing technologies.

No WiMAX service launch dates were mentioned but we've hard about two more markets, Atlanta and Las Vegas.

The 46 pre-wimax markets the company is currently serving will be upgraded to WiMAX in 2009.