Clearwire, Intel and Best Buy Team Up on WiMAX Promotion
June 21, 2010Readers of Sidecut Reports heard about it a couple weeks ago, but today the three companies made it official with a press release spelling out the details of the Clearwire/Intel/Best Buy WiMAX promotion. While we’re not sure who’s footing the big part of the bill, for potential customers the deal is basically a $100 discount for a Best Buy-purchased laptop with WiMAX embedded inside, providing you also sign up for a 2-year contract for Clearwire service.
If you’re in the market for a new computer anyway and want to give WiMAX a whirl, it’s a bit of a deal sweetener and the kind of thing that Clearwire had been shying away from during its initial market launches, since it didn’t really have the cash on hand to subsidize the discounts itself. But with more big-city market launches either already in the books or due to go live this year, more businesspeople may be interested in a laptop that can connect to both Wi-Fi and a 4G network like Clearwire’s, at no additional cost. So the timing seems to be right.
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