NEW YORK - Clearwire Corp. pronounced Tuesday that it will enhance the wireless broadband network to cover Los Angeles, Miami, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City this year.
Clearwire had already pronounced that it would enhance to cover New York, Houston, Boston, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Denver, Minneapolis and San Francisco this year. Right now, Clearwire covers twenty-seven cities with the service, that provides speeds close to DSL for about $30 per month.
The proclamation doesnt paint an increase in speed of the companys plan. Clearwire had formerly pronounced it plans to cover areas with 120 million people by the finish of 2010, and it is adhering to that figure.
Story continues next ↓advertisement your ad hereClearwire is utilizing WiMax technology. Its faster than cellular broadband offering by wireless carriers, but it doesnt nonetheless work with cell phones. Instead, Clearwire sells WiMax modems for laptops, and a little laptops right away come with built-in modems. However, Sprint Nextel Corp. voiced Tuesday that it will launch a phone this summer that complements the unchanging functions with entrance to Clearwires network for faster downloads, and probably additionally videoconferencing functions.
Sprint owns a infancy of Clearwire and resells use underneath the Clear brand. Other investors embody wire companies, that are seeking to sell wireless use to contest with phone companies. Clearwire had 688,000 subscribers at the finish of last year.
Clearwires shares rose 9 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $7.87Tuesday.
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