2:50 PM -- Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is planning to offer an MSO-branded WiMax service by mid-year in Portland, Ore., according to this blog post over at The Oregonian.

Evidently, Comcast's partnership with Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) came up during an interview with MSO COO Steve Burke, who was in town to talk up the Dream Big marketing tilt. (See Cable Plays Clearwire Card.)

The question now is whether other Comcast markets on Clearwire's 2009 relaunch or deployment roadmap -- Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia, for example -- will be joining the cable-WiMax fun later this year, as well. (See Clearwire Preps $1.5B Deployment in '09.)

We've run that question by Comcast, so we'll keep you posted.

— Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor, Cable Digital News