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McCaw, Clearwire Founder and Chairman, Resigns

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Craid McCaw

Cellular Phone

Jan 3, 2011, 2:59 PM
He founded McCaw Cellular in the 1980s, which later became AT&T Wireless in 1994. He also invested in Nextel back in the day as well. McCaw is a cellular pioneer.
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ATTDRONEV2.5

Jan 3, 2011, 5:13 PM
the captains jumping ship...


women, children and me first!

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Jayshmay

Jan 3, 2011, 7:31 PM
WoW! Aren't you just the wireless historian!
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epik

Jan 4, 2011, 10:29 AM
Or possibly good at checking Wikipedia. 😉
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Jayshmay

Jan 4, 2011, 11:39 AM
2 more days to go til CES, oooooohhhhh yeahhhh!!!!!!!!
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epik

Jan 4, 2011, 12:23 PM
giggity giggity
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epik

Jan 4, 2011, 10:31 AM
With enough sense to jump ship before it sinks, I think.

Interesting how earlier in the same day this was announced, there was an article about how Sprint has declined to invest more money into Clearwire.
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WiWavelength

Jan 4, 2011, 4:13 PM
epik said:
With enough sense to jump ship before it sinks, I think.

Interesting how earlier in the same day this was announced, there was an article about how Sprint has declined to invest more money into Clearwire.


Some of you seem to misunderstand Craig McCaw's position w/ Clearwire. He was Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors are not employees, per se. Rather, they are moderately compensated elected or appointed officials -- usually a mix of company insiders and outsiders, such as executives of other companies, university presidents, scientists, et al. Their duties are not to run the day to day operations of the company, only to guide the broad direction of the company and to ensure re...
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epik

Jan 4, 2011, 4:17 PM
I understand his position on the board all too well. But McCaw also has the distinction of being Clearwire's founder. Jumping ship seems more dubious given he built it.
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WiWavelength

Jan 4, 2011, 5:53 PM
epik said:
I understand his position on the board all too well. But McCaw also has the distinction of being Clearwire's founder. Jumping ship seems more dubious given he built it.


McCaw has founded, helmed, and/or invested heavily in many ventures (e.g. McCaw Cellular, Nextel, Clearwire), then divested his interests and/or distanced himself. He just moves on to his next venture. That is his modus operandi. Note, too, that his resignation was effective December 31. As such, that appears to be an orchestrated departure, not a preemptive resignation. And Clearwire has stated that McCaw's leave is not due to philosophical differences. So, claiming that this action is premonition of a "sinking ship" is no...
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epik

Jan 4, 2011, 6:03 PM
What part of the "jumping ship" cliche is factual and unspeculative?

Clearwire and other corporations tell you what they want you to hear, truth or not. Yes, my statement was speculative (not sure how you came to the conclusion that I thought otherwise), because I - like you - have no way of knowing whether statements are true, or what is really going on inside a company (short of being an executive of said company).

Your own comments, if taken in opposition to my "idle" and "irresponsible" comment, can also be speculative for all we know.

My apologies for speaking informally on this site. I reserve factual statements for my own site. I was under the impression that the PhoneScoop forum was an area of informal conversation, tin...
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