With the launch of the City of Milledgeville’s Municipal Wireless Broadband Network, the community also welcomes a new business to the local economy.

Kirkland, Wash.-based Clearwire Communications, through a partnership with the City of Milledgeville and Gov. Sonny Perdue’s Wireless Communities Georgia initiative, rolled out its new super fast Clear mobile Internet service in Milledgeville Thursday.

“This is really something special,” Clearwire Atlanta-area General Manager Marc Brachman told The Union-Recorder Thursday. “We rolled out service about three months ago in Atlanta, and in addition to Milledgeville, we’re also launching in Philadelphia [Pa.] today.”

Clear mobile Internet service provides customers with the ability to take broadband Internet access with them anywhere in the Clear coverage area. And with Clearwire’s goal of opening 80 markets, covering 120 million users nationwide, by 2010, Clear’s coverage area will grow by leaps and bounds.

Brachman said Clear mobile Internet service will have applications for city government, local businesses and community organizations in addition to the flexibility it offers area consumers.

“Innovation comes from creative people, and this service puts one more tool in the hands of those persons who will drive innovation in the future,” Brachman said.

Clear mobile Internet service will enhance local law enforcement and emergency responders’ ability to provide assistance by providing them with the file transfer speeds necessary to relay important information en route and onsite, anywhere in the Clear coverage area.

“In the past, other networks were not able to handle the bandwidth necessary to send large documents,” Brachman said. “Now technology has finally caught up with these needs.”

But with Milledgeville’s new wireless infrastructure in place, it’s time for residents’ uses to make pace with the available technology.

Brachman said the sky’s the limit for the ways in which the Clear mobile Internet service can be applied throughout the community.

“Whether its colleges and universities using it for distance learning or chatting between students and professors or police using it to download and upload information when they’re called out into the field, all things are particularly applicable,” he said. “If you can provide the service cost-effectively, then people will put it to use fast.”

And with a range of service levels, Clearwire is making wireless broadband connectivity available at a price that will be cost effective for many Milledgeville residents.

With subscription packages starting at $25 a month, and special discounts available to students and university personnel, Clear mobile Internet service can get residents connected without the wires or the necessity of a telephone or cable television service.

Subscriptions to the new Clear-Milledgeville Wireless Broadband Network can be purchased locally by visiting IT Systems located at 159 Garrett Way, or by calling (478) 452-0411.

You also can get connected by contacting Clearwire directly through their Web site www.clear.com or by calling their customer service line at (888) 888-3113.