Clearwire Wins Spotlight Award

Successful Inaugural Eos Awards Highlights Industry’s Best

NXTcomm 2007

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NXTcomm, the only venue where the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment meet taking place this week in Chicago, today announced Clearwire Corporation the winner of the Spotlight Award, an award signifying the “best of” the 2007 NXTcomm Eos Excellence of Achievement Awards.

Judged exclusively by members of the media, the Spotlight Award honors the exhibiting company that has developed the most promising new technology or provided the best new network services and strategic support. All 12 Eos Awards winners were considered for the Spotlight Award.

Clearwire Corporation won the Spotlight Award for its Clearwire Wireless Broadband service. It was selected as the winner for the company’s wireless high-speed Internet service that is simple, fast, portable, reliable and affordable. Customers are free from traditional landlines and cable connections by using Clearwire to connect to the Internet through licensed or secured spectrum. This is accomplished via radio signals transmitted from a tower to a small, wireless modem, which easily connects a user’s computer to the Internet. With its simple plug-and-play installation customers can be on the Internet within minutes of set up. The company’s wireless high-speed Internet service is now available in a total of 38 markets in the U.S. covering approximately 8.9 million people more than 400 municipalities across 12 states. The company also serves international markets in Ireland, Belgium and Denmark.

“Our inaugural Eos Award competition was a great success with contestants representing a broad range of categories,” said Wayne Crawford, NXTcomm Executive Director. “It’s an exciting time for the industry with so many new technologies being introduced. This award gives us an opportunity to highlight the best. We look forward to continuing this tradition at next year’s show.”

Eos Award winners were honored for best new technology or enterprise solution in twelve categories covering the entire range of wireless, broadband, and next-generation technologies and services for both public and enterprise networks. The winners and finalists will be recognized during a special reception on Wednesday, June 20.

NXTcomm, being held this week at Chicago’s McCormick Place, brings together top executives from every segment of the global industry to exhibit, explore new business opportunities and buy the latest technologies driving the converged communications and entertainment industry. Showcasing hundreds of new and innovative products, the NXTcomm exhibit floor reflects the dramatic changes in the industry. The show also features a broad range of educational programming.

NXTcomm, the new industry venue co-owned by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom) that will feature the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment, comes to Chicago’s McCormick Place June 18-21, 2007. NXTcomm will unite the premier information and communications technology (ICT) industry supplier and technology companies with the world’s leading communications and entertainment companies that are together driving broadband-based innovation around the world. For more information, go to http://www.NXTcommShow.com/.