Clearwire lighting up ten more markets with WiMAX on September 1st

Not like we didn't have reason to believe that the ten markets mentioned in Clearwire's latest press release weren't getting a taste of that sweet, succulent 4G action in the near term, but it's sure good to see the official word passed down. On September 1st (as in, less than a month), the cool kids in Boise, Idaho, Bellingham, Washington and eight Texas markets (Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen / Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls) will be able to laugh heartily at friends in other locales as they struggle to upload their latest YouTube clip over 3G. Each market should expect their own retail store opening as well as all sorts of other launch day shenanigans, some of which involve "promotional offers" that'll undoubtedly be too good to pass up.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 4th 2009 10:51AM]

The press release says Boise, IA which would be Iowa (IA) not Idaho (ID), though there is no such town in Iowa named Boise...someone was drunk on 4G and forgot to proof the document!

[EludiumQ36 Posted Aug 4th 2009 12:46PM]

Please, Bellingham, Milledgeville -- who's their freakin demographic, old maids in dustbowl America ?! The cumulative pop of those tier-3 towns might be 1,000. What kind of rollout strategy IS this ?! Those townsfolk don't even know what cellphones are let alone 4G data. MAKES NO SENSE.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 4th 2009 2:52PM]

"West Texas" is most likely the Abilene, TX area. Abilene currently has modem-based wireless internet provided by Clearwire. I'd be will to be that the same is true of Bellingham and Milledgeville.