Clearwire CEO on WiMAX strengths, enterprise apps

If WiMAX catches on as a popular broadband standard in the United States, Clearwire will get a lion's share of the credit. After all, while its partners such as Sprint, Google and Comcast will be supplying money and infrastructure, it is Clearwire  that has been tasked with building a WiMAX network that spans the whole United States. At the WiMAX World convention in Chicago this week, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff sat down with Network World's Brad Reed to discuss his company's plans to deploy WiMAX in the United States, what benefits WiMAX services will have for enterprise users, and what is WiMAX's niche in the mobile broadband market as a whole.

What will Clearwire's role be in building out this nationwide WiMAX network?

Initially, we had signed a letter of intent to do a joint build with Sprint, but ultimately we couldn't figure out how to make that work. So instead we agreed to merge Sprint's WiMAX business with Clearwire and create a company that will be completely independent of Sprint. So Clearwire will build out WiMAX throughout the entire country. We will, of course, be able to access lot of Sprint's assets, particularly some of their fiber assets that we will use to build out the network.

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