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]