In the evolution of any species or technology, it is the strongest and fastest and most capable that perseveres. This week, I had the pleasure of joining our fellow WiMAX champions at the ITU Telecom World 2009 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where it became clear to me that WiMAX still has a leg-up in the evolutionary race to the 4G finish line.
The WiMAX Forum and executives from Clearwire, Beceem, Cisco, Huawei, Samsung, Intel, UQC, Yota and others were all on-hand at the conference to show support for WiMAX as our ecosystem continues to grow and expand the global WiMAX footprint. Already at 500 deployments across more than 145 countries, WiMAX is showing it has the chops to maintain its market lead as the first commercially available 4G technology worldwide.
And Clearwire has recently taken several steps toward that end, as well. With today’s announcement of new infrastructure partnerships with Alvarion and ZTE to build out WiMAX in Spain; our recent agreements with Russia’s Yota and Japan’s UQ Communications; and with the robust vendor structure we have in place throughout North America, we’re doing our part to drive the evolution of this technology forward.
As we continue to band together with international technology powerhouses to change the very face of mobile broadband, perhaps what we’re doing is not evolution at all – but revolution.

Barry West, President – International, Clearwire