Tag archive: Perry Satterlee

Satellite television operators DirecTV and EchoStar are ratcheting up their competition with cable behemoths like Time Warner and Comcast by partnering with Clearwire to offer high-speed wireless Internet connectivity with satellite television. The deal also allows Clearwire to offer DirecTV and/or EchoStar satellite TV service to its Internet customers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; service offerings should become… Read More

VoIP provider Clearwire today said they are testing an Internet-based phone service and wireless Internet service in California which makes use of wireless 2.5GHz technology. Clearwire said they are the first to widely deploy this type of wireless broadband telephony in the United States. In the Stockton, California test market, said Clearwire, the wireless Internet service is being provided over the company's existing Wi-Max class… Read More

Nextel Communications Inc. and Nextel Partners Inc. today announced complete readiness for the final phase of wireless local number portability (WLNP), which allows customers to switchservice providers while keeping their phone numbers. The Federal Communications Commission's mandate went into effect last November in the top 100 U.S. markets. The FCC deadline for the nation'sremaining markets is May 24. “We made a… Read More