Time Warner to sell WiMAX in Charlotte, Dallas

Time Warner will become the next Clearwire WiMAX reseller, CEO Glenn Britt said in the company's second quarter earnings call on Wednesday, making the cable company the third major reseller of Clear 4G wireless.

Time Warner invested in Sprint and Clearwire's consolidation into the Clear 4G wireless network along with Intel, Google and fellow cable companies Bright House Networks and Comcast.

At the end of June, Comcast announced that it would launch its own WiMAX subscription plans under the name "Comcast High Speed 2go" in Portland and continue in Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia as their WiMAX deployments are completed.

Time Warner, on the other hand, mentioned that its first 4G networks will be set up in four U.S. markets including Dallas, Texas and Charlotte, North Carolina, two cities whose WiMAX deployments are expected to be complete by the end of 2009. The company did not disclose the other two cities in which the service will launch.

Since there are only four major WiMAX deployments in the United States at present --Portland, Baltimore, Atlanta, and Las Vegas-- there would only be one option for Time Warner if it were to launch its WiMAX business immediately. Comcast has claimed Portland and Atlanta, and Sprint is the reseller in Baltimore, which leaves Las Vegas, the newest WiMAX network which launched just two weeks ago.

However, the company did not go into detail about the timeframe of its WiMAX launch, so it is possible that it could set up in any of the 15 new markets expected to launch in the next year.