Clearwire subscribers top 688k, revenue soars in 2009

By on Feb 24, 2010 at 6:43 PM
News February 24, 2010

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Clearwire announced its Q4 2009 and 2009 year end results today, and though WiMAX in the US is lagging behind its European counterparts, it is coming on strong and 2010 promises to be a banner year for the 4G service. Q4 2009 was a strong quarter for Clearwire with the wireless provider adding 85,000 new subscribers in that three month period alone, a single quarter increase that is the largest in company history and greater than its first three 2009 quarters combined. Revenue was also strong in Q4 with Clearwire reporting $79.9 million consolidated revenue, a 34% increase from the same quarter in 2008. Year end results for 2009 were equally as impressive with Clearwire reporting $274.5 Million in revenue, a 19% increase compared with Pro Forma 2008. On top of that, Clearwire also added ten new markets in 2009 and ended the year with a total of 688,000 subscribers, a marked increase over the 475,000 subscribers recorded at the end of 2008. What we’re really waiting for is more 4G in more cities, and Clearwire expects to cover up to 120 million people with its 4G network by the end of 2010, including several high profile launches in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Houston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Denver, Minneapolis, and Kansas City. Our HTC Supersonics will be waiting.

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  • grrr

    Clear is Awesome!

  • Marty

    Fudge

  • iFloss

    Why is the roll out so slow when t-mobile reached 200M in two years??? =_______________=

    Funding or are they just waiitng to have their asses kicked by Verizon and AT&T just like EVERY OTHER SERVICE ROLLOUT.

    2G, 3G…. I mean verizon has more than 90% of the country covered in 3G. If I was a verizon chairperson i would propse to just blanket the whole country with 3G spectrum and finish it off.

    IDK though, watch us have another sprint map on our hands compared to verizon’s super power.

    • StevenGlansburg

      you need a sponge to clean off all of the jizz you squirted on the map?

    • betchplz

      T-Mobile reached 200 million within a year or so. (started in aug. 2008 with 3G then reached 205 million in December ’09)

      Mainly it’s because of the 2.5Ghz spectrum they hold. It really is going to require a lot of towers to properly service an entire city over what the current carriers have now.

    • Celz

      Sprint regularly beats VZW in 3g tests so what r u talking about…

      And T-mobile rolling out 5-6 year old tech with a big European Daddy is alot different than releasing bleeding edge tech with several different partners who all have some say…

      • jaymax

        HSPA+ continues to evolve, with the latest iteration supporting download speeds of around 85Mbps, according to the last news report I read on the subject. That’s competitive with LTE.

  • srp11

    I have this service and it sucks eggs wish I would have waited a little longer well you get what you pay for the price is right but the service is awfull in my area at least for me it is.

  • Ru_Nuts

    Clearwire or Sprint, (I’m not clear on the differences) have 4G in OKC now (testing) & are planning on rolling WiMAX out later this year.
    I plan on kicking my BB 9630 to the curb and getting a HTC Supersonic.

  • Gears

    Good to hear they are adding subscribers. Lets add a 4G phone to the mix and more coverage and we’ll see that number double.

  • gnarlatron

    Never get clearwire, worst company I have ever had to deal with. On top of unreliable connection speeds.

  • Nokia N900

    What is a “clearwire” and who’s subscribing???

    • jaymax

      I think some often mistake Clear for competing with mobile broadband put out by the cellular carriers. I don’t think it really does. For me, Clear 4G (not 3G) replaced my home dsl line with 4x the speed and 25% the cost.

      I’ve been very happy with it.

  • bob

    meanwhile many att users are getting comparable speed on existing phones… why bother with a network that might have one phone that works with it by sometime this year?

  • Minerva

    What is funny is how several sites are posting Clear’s performance as sub par and claiming they only have enough money to expand for this year.

    This site on the other hand is posting the news all rosy.

    Just goes to show that journalists can make or break a mood simply by the way the news is presented.

    • DubYa

      Or it shows how these journalists don’t really understand the industry.

  • rina

    The $140 thing fits in your pocket, runs for four hours on a lithium-ion battery, connects up to 8 laptops via Wi-Fi, and works like a charm when you’re in a decent WiMax coverage area.

    Details: (You still need to connect a WiMax modem, which costs $50 and requires a data plan.)

  • iphoneabuser

    Htc supersonic can’t come any sooner..

  • mi_canuck

    this WOULD be good news IF there were some actual – you know – HANDSETS that actually USED WIMAX right NOW!!!!!!!

  • Champs

    I double checked — the one word I don’t see: PROFIT.

  • discgolfer

    I know 4 people With clearwire service , it is terrible, slow, customer service sucks and connection is spotty.

    • jaymax

      Do they have Clearwire 3G or 4G. There’s a big difference in reliability…

  • dosmastr

    Just be careful with clear.
    I have them, they work great SOMETIMES.
    They call me alot “hey is that lowest tier connection you got giving you problems? I hear they can be “jittery” how about you upgrade to faster for more money?”

    No thanks.

    “Ok well like I said I hear people sometimes have problems on the lower speed connections”

    and later that night hulu will be buffering more than its playing after having an uneventful and successful day.

    oftentimes hulu and googlemaps are both crapshoots.

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