Comments on: Clearwire to Launch WiMAX in 10 U.S. Cities in September http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GDI http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219742 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:12:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219742 Does anyone know when Houston will be launched for this service? This sounds like a really exciting service and should open up broadband to a segment of the market that is not receiving service now.

]]> By: When and Where to Find 4G in Q4 http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219741 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:01:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219741 [...] in Seattle, Philadelphia and Chicago. Clearwire’s 4G service is already available in 14 U.S. cities, including Las Vegas and Atlanta, and has said it plans to roll out 4G to Silicon Valley in [...]

]]> By: Liz http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219740 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:18:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219740 WiMAX is what my husband (a worker for the Navy) has in the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain. He purchased a monthly subscription of WiMAX and has his flat’s wired-in satellite service as a fall-back. The system works as-advertised most of the month until he runs out of his purchased bandwidth for the month (every place I have heard about in the Middle East sells by the megabyte – not month) After that it drops down to about 56k and stays there until his next renewal. For all this he pays the US equivalent of $45 per month. The service in his flat is free, but suffers more down time and slowdowns than the WiMAX, and the upload/download speeds do not compare to the other (except after he uses up the bandwidth)

Be thankful that the monthly fees here in the US means you have that bandwidth FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH.

]]> By: Silicon Valley software developers to get WiMAX network soon | UpOff.com http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219739 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:25:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219739 [...] and Clearwire plan to deploy WiMAX service in another 10 cities sometime in September 2009. This top-down rollout is a strategy to bring WiMAX to the top one-third [...]

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219738 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:17:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219738 Me again…OK, one evening wimax gave me 2.5mb and the old receiver was giving me 1.5mb. “Wow, that’s awesome” I thought. Then last night it’s really slow, so I do a speed test: I’m getting 48k (that’s dial-up, right??)

I test a few more times and then plug in the old receiver. Suddenly I’m back up to the old reliable 1.5mb.

]]> By: Habib Ullah Khan http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219737 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:41:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219737 It is absolutely rocking in emerging markets because of the easy go to market. the consumer experience is mixed as beamforming Wimax is not widely rolled out. I see Wimax definetely having its niche in the emerging world as well as a viable back haul solution for an SP of any size geography and sophistication.

]]> By: David Robins http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219736 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:42:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219736 Does anybody think wimax has any future? It seems the carriers don’t want to support it, even-though it gives them longer reach!

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219735 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:15:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219735 I live just south of Amarillo and received my *new* wimax receiver today. Hmmmm….I just barely got 1.5mb (and was grateful, given I live in a hole) before with the old receiver, and now I’m getting 450k with the new one.

I hope it gets better Sept 1, because if it’s already rolled out now…it sucks.

]]> By: airlink http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219734 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:40:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219734 The markets listed are present-day Clearwire markets, utilizing the before-the-wimax-standard NextNet technology. They obviously have enough spectrum in those markets to deploy both, migrating customers from old technology to new.

I’m guessing those markets must’ve had low barriers to entry, with either sucky incumbent telcos, or low cable penetration, no fios, etc. Or the spectrum was cheap. Whatever…now those residents have a viable mobile broadband solution.

]]> By: techboy2000 http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219733 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:10:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219733 The list of cities is not impressive:

Boise, Idaho; Bellingham, Wash.; and Eight Texas Markets, Including Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls.

]]> By: Jason Lackey http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219732 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:55:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219732 It will be interesting to see how the LTE vs WiMAX thing ends up. Either way, the consumer will win. I just wish the SF Bay Area was used more for first rollouts.

]]> By: HSK http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219731 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:55:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219731 Interesting choice of markets – very small markets but probably ones with poor coverage otherwise (3G or broadband)?

]]> By: Jennifer Martinez http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219730 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:00:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219730 Thanks for the heads up, Paul!

]]> By: Paul Kapustka http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219729 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:03:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219729 @Don Google put 500 million into the Clearwire merger last year. Comcast and Intel had about a billion each.

And @Jennifer, to clarify Clearwire services are actually available *now* in those new 10 cities — the company is in the habit of making services available before the “official” launch date, for some unexplained marketing reason. Bottom line, folks in Lubbock can sign up for the new 4G services today.

]]> By: don thorson http://gigaom.com/2009/08/03/clearwire-to-launch-wimax-in-10-u-s-cities-in-september/#comment-219728 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:32:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61871#comment-219728 Do I remember correctly that Google is a major Clearwire investor? The number 1 billion dollars is floating up – I’m not sure it’s true.

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