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Thomas Farely

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His knowledge of telecommunications has served, most notably, the American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine and The History Channel.
His interview on Alexander Graham Bell will air on the History Channel the end of 2006.

Ken Schmidt

Ken is a licensed attorney who has worked in the tower industry for seven years. He has managed the development of broadcast towers nationwide and developed and built cell towers.

He has been quoted in newspapers and magazines on issues regarding cell towers and has spoke at industry and non-industry conferences on cell tower related issues.

He is recognized as an expert on cell tower leases and due diligence processes for tower acquisitions.

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July 06, 2006

Posted by Ken Schmidt & Mark van der Hoek at 04:49 PM

Clearwire snags $900 million from Intel, Motorola; drops IPO (The Seattle Times)

A partnership between Clearwire, Motorola, and Intel has been created to build the first national WiMAX network. Clearwire has raised $900 million from the two companies, which it will use to aggressively fund the WiMAX service deployment.

Intel will begin manufacturing chips for laptops to connect to the service, and Motorola has committed to building the infrastructure. WiMAX is expected to be cheaper and faster than the 3G networks that cellular service providers are developing.

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