Two big telecommunication corporations, Sprint Nextel Corporation and Clearwire Corporation are still planning to continue their collaboration on WiMAX mobile network. According to CEO of Clearwire, Ben Wolff at a conference call, they are now aligned on the architecture of having a common network. In fact, significant progress is seen on this collaboration of to establish their agreement of allowing roaming in their networks.

Concern had been given on this partnership since their joint project on the WiMAX network did not push through. Consumers are now wondering on what will now happen to the mobile plans of WiMAX because of this turn of events. Top echelons of the two corporations are now doing their best to resolve this problem so as to enable further alliances with other networks on their roaming services.

To showcase the partnership between the two companies, CEO Wolff made a call to the president of Xohm, Barry West via the mobile WiMAX network for Clearwire in Oregon and the Xohm network for Sprint Nextel in Virginia. This is to prove that the technology aimed by this partnership is already in tip top shape; that the consumers have no reason to worry on using their mobile phones using the roaming network of these companies.

The trial network of Xohm is now having download speeds of a minimum of 3 megabits each second as well as upload speeds reaching up to 2 Mbps. This service is now being planned for launch in the latter part of the year, with Sprint Nextel committing to follow through on these plans.

The call made on WiMAX network was the very first time this type of call was ever made live using the VoIP system of the WiMAX network.

On the rumors that have been circulating on this problem which ranged from having acquisitions being planned to investments being made by Google, Clearwire chose not to comment. He reiterated that it was a steadfast policy of Clearwire not to give any comments on hearsays that usually have no basis.

Unfortunately, analysts are not appeased with these comments. In fact, Joseph Galone and Walter Piecyk of Pali Research have been seen to comment that the rumors on Google making an investment in WiMAX seemed to be farfetched, stating further that it may be wishful thinking on both Clearwire and Sprint to have someone fund their WiMAX collaboration, since they may probably have not enough funds to do it or probably just do not want to.