Best Buy forms partnership to offer broadband service

Best Buy Co. announced Thursday that its subsidiary Best Buy Connect and wireless service provider Clearwire Corp., based in Kirkland, Wash., have forged a wholesale relationship that will allow Best Buy to use Clearwire’s 4G network to offer mobile Internet service to customers under the Best Buy Connect service.Beginning in 2011, Best Buy will offer a new 4G tier for its recently introduced Best Buy Connect service. Best Buy Connect was conceived to help accelerate mobile broadband adoption by providing consumers the convenience of one-stop shopping for devices, service activation, billing and customer support from Best Buy.“Our strategic wholesale