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Posted By Larry Alder, Product
Manager

As href="http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1141088" >
you may have read, Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner
Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have
entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless
broadband company. The new company will combine Clearwire's
existing consumer WiMAX business with Sprint's broadband
infrastructure and 2.5 GHz spectrum to create a new nationwide
wireless broadband network. In addition to our $500 million
contribution as part of the investment group, we will provide
search and applications to the network's users, and will work
with Clearwire to offer additional services and applications. This
will include jointly creating an open Internet protocol to work
with mobile broadband devices (including href="http://code.google.com/android/" id="e_d:"
>Android-powered devices) and implementing other
open network practices and policies.

We believe that the new network will provide wireless consumers
with real choices for the software applications, content and
handsets that they desire. Such freedom will mirror the openness
principles underlying the Internet and enable users to get the most
out of their wireless broadband experience. As we've supported
open standards for spectrum and wireless handsets, we're
especially excited that Clearwire intends to build and maintain a
network that will embrace important openness features. In
particular, the network will: (1) expand advanced high speed
wireless Internet access in the U.S., (2) allow consumers to
utilize any lawful applications, content and devices without
blocking, degrading or impairing Internet traffic and (3) engage in
reasonable and competitively-neutral network management.

We're looking forward to seeing the Clearwire network take
shape and begin to deliver benefits to users, and we will continue
to look for new partners to promote openness and bring compelling
applications and services to end users. There's more
information on Clearwire and the transaction on href="http://www.clearwire.com/transaction/" >Clearwire's
site.

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By Minnie Ingersoll, Chris Sacca &
Larry Alder, Alternative Access Team

Our Mountain View WiFi network just celebrated its

href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-citywide-wifi-in-mountain-view.html"
id="g7.:" >first anniversary, and we thought you'd
appreciate a few data points. The network's 400 mesh routers
cover about 12
square miles and 25,000 homes to serve approximately 15,000
unique users each week month. Since the beginning of
2007, traffic has grown almost 10 percent each month, and the
network now handles over 300 gigabytes of data each day, sent to
over 100 distinct types of WiFi devices. Virtually the entire city
has been taking advantage of the network, with 95 percent of the
mesh routers being used on any given day.

Around the globe and across the U. S., many people are still not
able to access the online services that are increasingly helpful,
if not essential, tools for our daily lives. This is why we're
committed to promoting alternative platforms for people to access
the web, no matter where you are, what you're doing or what
device you're using.

For those who have been following href="https://home.feather.net/sanfrancisco" id="c03t" >the
effort to create a free wireless network in San Francisco, we
continue to hope that EarthLink and The City will find a way to
enable all San Franciscans to enjoy the free WiFi network they
deserve. On a broader scale, we hope that the success of the
Mountain View model will encourage others to think creatively about
how to address access issues in many other communities.

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