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Best Buy is teaming up with Clearwire to offer the WiMAX provider’s broadband services to its customers under the Best Buy Connect brand. Starting in 2011, the electronics retail giant will offer a 4G option to customers wishing to purchase its branded broadband service.
No markets have been specified (where the new service will be available), though I’m sure we’ll have all the details soon. Likewise, we’ve no any pricing information…
Sprint, Clearwire’s WiMAX network partner, offers several WiMAX/3G modems as well as few WiMAX-ready phones such as the HTC Evo 4G and the upcoming Samsung Epic 4G. At the moment, this bundled (3G-WiMAX) offering covers 43 markets across the U.S.
In a nutshell, Best Buy seems to want to become some sort of an MVNO for the mobile broadband. It certainly has the distribution network on place, so they may actually succeed. We’ll definitely keep watching where this goes and keep you folks in the loop…
[Via: PhoneScoop]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
