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Clearwire by the numbers
The wireless ISP king paints an ambitious vision for a nationwide WiMAX network in the United States. Can it live up to expectations?
Clearwire executives took some time this last week to set expectations for the company's proposed joint venture with Sprint Nextel. If approved, the pair's WiMAX plans would merge into a single entity aspiring to provide nationwide mobile broadband coverage in the US. Investors and those considering investing in the company were treated to a 31-page slide presentation describing the strategy and projections for the next nine years of service. For those who either didn't make it to the presentation and those who simply couldn't sit still that long, here is the WiMax.com version of Clearwire "by the numbers":
1.2: Average number of devices that a subscriber is expected to have on the Clearwire service in 2009.
1.7: Average number of devices that a subscriber is forecasted to have on the Clearwire service in 2017.
2: The number of executives named in the proposed Sprint/Clearwire joint venture, namely Ben Wolff as CEO and Barry West as President.
3: The target uplink speed (in Mbps) for the Mobile WiMAX network service.
6: The group of major investors named in the financing of the joint venture with Clearwire: Brighthouse, Comcast, Google, Intel, Sprint and Time Warner.
6: The target downlink speed (in Mbps) for the Clearwire service.
12~18: The number of months historically that it takes Clearwire to launch service in a new U.S. market.
17.5: The revenues (US$ billions) forecasted by Clearwire for 2017.
109~259: The monthly "share of wallet" (US$) projected by 2017 for Clearwire services that encompass residential broadband, residential voice, mobile broadband, mobile voice and mobile entertainment.
120~140: The millions of potential U.S. subscribers who will have Clearwire network coverage by 2010.
220: The millions of potential U.S. subscribers within reach of the Clearwire network by 2017.
2009: The year that Clearwire expects to pass 1 million subscribers.
In all their green and blue bar-graph glory, here is the gratuitous marketing chart to help visualize those statistics:
Considering all the obstacles in front of the company as a wireless provider, Clearwire is in a unique position. No other company is poised to join the four nationwide providers of mobile services in the US. A successful execution of these lofty goals would be game-changing for mobile broadband.
By Jeff Orr
ORR Technology, LLC
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