Clearwire Technologies failed as a vendor, so it became a network operator instead." Like many things that come out of the mouth of Fred Haskins, the company's VP of marketing, you don't know whether this is joke or fact. It sounds just goofy enough that it could be true. The real truth: Buffalo, N.Y.-based Clearwire, like others, saw the broadband wireless opportunity developing. The company figured it could get into the market early. Make a bundle selling point-to-multipoint spread spectrum radio hardware to ISPs looking to offer broadband wireless access to the Internet.
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