Hat tip to Tom Keating at TMC and Internet Telephony magazine for this one.
There is no doubt in my mind that Clearwire plans to introduce a phone service. The question is what they introduce and when. If you recall, Clearwire founder Craig McCaw’s roots are in mobile phones with what became AT&T Wireless and Nextel. All WiMax offers him is a new way to do what he has always done, which is why this is such a big deal to Clearwire.
Until the FCC makes some hard and fast decisions about what is and what isn’t telephony battles like this will always happen. Hey, maybe Clearwire will merge with Vonage. Now wouldn’t that be interesting !