Word: macropolitan
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...Seattle-based Clearwire is run by former cellular zealot turned WiMax guru Craig McCaw, while others include Irish Broadband in Ireland, Wimax Telecom in Eastern Europe and Unwired in Australia. "It's like a big landgrab," says Ryan Jarvis, founder and chief executive of London-based WiMax start-up Macropolitan. Fixed-line telephone and broadband providers including Softbank in Japan, and BT and Pipex in the U.K., are also getting in on the act. A wireless WiMax network could help fixed-line carriers extract delicious revenge on cellular carriers, which have undermined the fixed-line voice business in recent years...
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