Sprint, Clearwire WiMax-ing Out

By Margaret Lyons in News on May 8, 2008 8:22PM

Get ready for WiMax to blanket our region with delicious, wherever-you-want speedy internet connections (provided you have a WiMax-enabled device). Come to mama.

Sprint and Clearwire Corporation announced that they're teaming up to form Clearwire, a new wireless communication company that's all about WiMax, which is like Wifi on awesome sauce. Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner and Bright House Networks invested a combined $3.2 billion in the new venture, and Chicago gets first dibs on the technology. Well, us and Baltimore and Washington. But still. Dibs.

According to the Trib, "Sprint executives say the Chicago network will come online by year-end." [Trib, Information Week, Sprint, Forbes]