21 Facts About Clearwire

Clearwire Corporation was a telecommunications operator which provided mobile and fixed wireless broadband communications services to retail and wholesale customers in the United States, Belgium, Ireland and Spain.

In 2012, Clearwire moved the company headquarters to Bellevue, Washington.

Large percentage of Clearwire shares were previously owned by a number of large companies including Sprint Nextel Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc, Bright House Networks, LLC, Google Inc and Intel Corporation.

Clearwire provided services to 88 markets in the United States covering 134 million potential subscribers.

Clearwire provides service to customers in 17 U S cities using the Motorola Expedience 802.

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Clearwire was ranked as the fifth largest wireless provider in the U S, prior to being acquired, with roughly 11 million subscribers who used the WiMAX network as of January 2012.

Clearwire Technologies was formed by a number of investors including Sierra CEO Jim Gero and Edward "Rusty" Rose, a former co-managing partner of the Texas Rangers.

Clearwire Technologies raised about US$100 million from Goldman Sachs, in conjunction with another client who held licenses for spectrum allocated to various educational institutions; the former Instructional Television Fixed Service band now known as EBS or Educational Broadband Service.

Clearwire took a $900 million infusion of capital from Intel and Motorola in July 2006, shortly after pulling its initial public offering.

Clearwire filed for its initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission in May 2006.

Clearwire's underwriters included Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.

Clearwire offered 24 million shares at $25 a share, and raised approximately US$600 million.

Over a period of approximately six months, a bidding war with DISH Network for Clearwire occurred, ultimately resulting in Sprint increasing its offer price for Clearwire to $5 per share.

In 17 markets in the United States and certain markets in Belgium, Clearwire provides a service it refers to as "Pre-4G" using a Point-to-Multipoint system from Motorola called "Expedience", part of the MOTOwi4 family of products.

In January 2011, Clearwire started offering 4G WiMax service in Spain under the Instanet brand, discontinuing services based on Motorola Expedience technology.

Clearwire offered 4G WiMax service in Belgium under the Clearwire brand.

Clearwire offers Expedience based services in 17 markets in the United States and in certain markets in Belgium.

Clearwire formerly offered Expedience-based services in Ireland and Denmark until operations in those countries were purchased by Imagine Communications and ERLO Group, respectively.

In January 2011 Clearwire discontinued services based on Motorola Expedience technology in Spain in favor of Instanet branded 4G WiMAX service.

Clearwire offers its own Voice over IP service in some areas for an additional monthly fee.

The settlement allows Clearwire to continue throttling connections under certain circumstances as long as their advertising reflects this.