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Sprint and Clearwire End Partnership

Uncoiling like a broken whicker chair, Sprint and Clearwire’s joint WiMax plans are off. The two companies have announced that they’ll be parting ways, with Sprint staring bleakly its $5bn folly’s prospects and Clearwire in search of new lovers. From Wired sister-blog, Epicenter: "On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports that the two companies will […]

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Uncoiling like a broken whicker chair, Sprint and Clearwire's joint WiMax plans are off. The two companies have announced that they'll be parting ways, with Sprint staring bleakly its $5bn folly's prospects and Clearwire in search of new lovers.

From Wired sister-blog, Epicenter:

"On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports that the two companies will part ways due to "complexities" in the partnership and the departure last month of Sprint's CEO Gary Forsee -- a longtime champion of WiMax for the company."

What does this mean for you? Nothing. Someone will roll out ubiquitous super-fast WWAN in the next couple of years, and anything that lessens the likelihood of the worst carrier in America being the market leader is a good thing.

Sprint and Clearwire Call it Quits on WiMax Partnership [Epicenter]