In the early 1990s with the advent of a free market in Poland, the large national breweries began selling off their unprofitable assets, which typically included brewing equipment that could not produce beer on a sufficiently large scale.

BBC: Krakow brews a beer scene of its own

At the other end of the glitz scale is Hertz's niche business of renting equipment to large construction firms.

CNN: Hertz boss: We've cut costs by 25%

We believe these developments further position Clearwire and our LTE wholesale partners to leverage significant economies of scale and innovation commensurate with a large global ecosystem of chipsets, devices and infrastructure equipment.

ENGADGET: Clearwire sees wholesale revenues dip, LTE delays as it posts a $41.3 million net loss in Q3