Clear hiring 200 for Phila-area offices

Clearwire, the high-speed mobile-broadband modem company, has hired 130 since early November to staff its new Philadelphia-area offices, including Plymouth Meeting, King of Prussia, South Philly, and Willow Grove, among others. The company plans more hires as it builds out a network of 13 stores and sites, and will eventually employ around 200 salespeople and technicians in the area, says Philadelphia regional boss Andrew Kupiec.

For info on jobs selling and servicing the Clear network, check http://www.clearwire.com/company/careers.php

Clearwire offers Clear-brand 4G voice-over-Internet-protocol data service, via modems that plug into personal computers and can be linked to mobile devices, ranging from $30-75 a month.

Kubiec says the most popular service offers two connections ("home and travel") for $55 a month, with "uncapped speeds and data usage... To use your laptop and take your office with you and multitask, that's what we offer. With our 4G technology," starting at three megabytes a second, "you can run applications, you can run streaming video and streaming audio without buffering difficulties, you can do things at high broadband speeds on the go."

The Philadelphia area is one of 27 U.S. markets where Clearwire has built its network. The company's financial backers include SprinT, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel Capital, Google, and Bright House Networks, some of which offer their own 4G service, but mostly as part of a service bundle with other phone or video services, Kubiec notes.