Sprint’s 4G XOHM network just went live in Baltimore, MD on September 29. Soon it will be more than a mobile phone network when it’s spun into “New Clearwire,” a WiMax-based ISP. Many have feared that Sprint’s heavy-handed management principles outlined in their EULA would stunt the future New Clearwire. Instead, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff was very reasonable in saying that they would only manage the network to an extent needed to alleviate congestion.

“If we have network congestion, then we will deal with everyone fairly so that the heaviest of users may wind up having to give up a little bandwidth so that everybody has a reasonably good experience, but we are not going to target specific applications. And we will only manage the network in that manner to the extent we have congestion problems.”

And the peasants rejoiced!