I've dealt with my share of ass hats like that, so I definitely feel you there. I personally am not on the Wimax team, but I work very close to them. They are definitely working overtime to deliver the service we have been hyping for years now. Their enthusiasm is really rubbing of on the rest of us. The next few years are going to be very hard, but hopefully worth it. Like I said, I'm no marketing guy, and I have my own issues with the company. But like the article said, it is going to be fun to see what happens. Anyways, peace, and long life. Take care.

Sorry I got so angry. I've been pretty disillusioned myself about how we were going, but the dedication of this WiMax team has actually restored much of my faith in this company. I feel better about us than I have for a while, so I took too much offense from your comment. I would of felt the same way for such comments praising a company, so I understand your skepticism, and I hope there are no hard feelings. I understand your jadedness, so I shouldn't have been so quick to anger. I feel the same way myself a lot of times. So, sorry about that, and I wish you well :) .

Well, from what I have been observing, our teams and managers have been working overtime to get this project rolling and I have very high expectations for next year. I have been at this company for a while and I believe we are building something great here.

No, I am not a fucking drone, nor do I have any thing to do with marketing. I just happen to sit next to the WiMax team, and I am proud of how willing they are to make this project succeed. I admire them because they are willing to go out of their way to make this work. Since I am practically a Marxist, I couldn't give two shits about marketing anything. I am so cynical about most things, that to see people actually care about and work for something they believe in, it makes me want to do better myself. You may think I'm a drone, so as far as I'm concerned, you can go fuck yourself, but you can't demean the fact that these people actually care about what they are doing. They make me want to do better at my job, so that's all I care about. I don't give a shit that Harry Roberts thinks I'm a drone, because the people I work with actually make me want to be a better worker. So fuck you Harry if you think I'm some marketing drone (although Dr. Spliff is a cool name).

I am a proud Clearwire partner, and I am lucky to be able to observe the team we have on site working on our WiMAX testing and technical support. They are a very dedicated group of individuals who work tirelessly, and directly with our test market customers. The progress they have made in such a short time has been very encouraging. The last paragraph of the article stated that "Clearwire has completed an important first step and has partnered with blue chip investors. But the company is embarking on a long journey with very significant challenges. It is going to be fun to see what happens". Well, for me personally, it has been pretty fun to watch this team take on these significant challenges head on and come up with creative solutions for them. We are already getting great speeds on this new system, and I believe we will be able to roll out this network more efficiently then the article would have you believe. It will be a long journey, but it will be worth it. I believe this company will be very successful because they care about their employees enough to let them go out of their way to satisfy the customer with almost any issue they have, even if its not supported by us personally. This makes us a great company that customers can trust and rely on. I know I could never get that level of support from my ISP, who outsource, and therefore I can barely understand. (I don't live in a Clearwire market...yet). Clearwire lets me have the freedom to try and resolve most of our customer's network problems, and because of that, we have customers who can trust us and count on us. This new WiMAX deployment will be a great challenge, but with the level of dedication that these people have put into this idea, I believe we will succeed. You may think I am biased because I work for them, but you would be mistaken. I have my own concerns and issues about Clearwire. This job burns me out a lot, but I still love working for them. The article says that "Clearwire's 4G network plan is no slam dunk". Well, most new technologies are never slam dunks immediately, but with the dedication of our teams, I don't see why a three point shot would be out of the question. Hey, I'm just a fly on the wall watching this team work. With the level of dedication I have personally observed, I believe we will succeed.