Google Eyeballing Clearwire in Wireless Strategy?
Note: Do It Google. Trust me, the force is strong with Craig. Then you can deploy Clearwire in Las Vegas :) How can you serve Nevada and only hit Reno? I don't get it? Anyways, WiMax is a good technology and I think is has the potential of solving the wireless "last mile" solution. I am ordering CW today to increase my bandwidth.
A Google investment in Clearwire could fortify the search company's quest to reach more users through their mobile devices. If Google can help Clearwire build out its wireless network, Google could sell consumers mobile applications and services rich with targeted, contextual and localized ads, analysts agreed.
Since announcing its Android mobile software stack Nov. 5, Google has weathered a steady stream of speculation about what it will do next in the wireless arena. That speculation deepened after Sprint and Clearwire nixed their WiMax agreement, prompting industry watchers to predict Google might target either of the two wireless carriers for some sort of deal.
Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin said a Google investment in Clearwire would also likely make Clearwire guarantee the openness that Google has argued for in the Federal Communications Commission auctions and promoted in Android. Google could then promote a model in which consumers use Google's applications and services irrespective of what networks they are on or what mobile devices they are using.
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