Comments on: WiMAX Arriving in San Fran, L.A. and N.Y.C. By Year End

By: JL

JL — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:30:36 +0000

Watch out for ClearWire bandwidth throttle. If you exceed 8Gb in download, they will slow your connection to 25kbps until a new billing cycle starts. Do a search before you sign yourself into a 2 year contract.

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Sprint Clawing Back With Help From Android, Prepaid: Tech News « — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:19:05 +0000

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Buying Mobile Broadband? Don’t! (Until You Read This): Tech News « — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:01:10 +0000

[...] Clearwire’s WiMAX rollout continues with service coming to three major cities in the next two … – San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City — adding another 13 million people covered by the network. [...]

By: Dream Police

Dream Police — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:10:58 +0000

Aren’t they headquartered in the Bay Area? After burning through billions over many years….just a couple more months? Haven’t they slowed down the progress of an industry (because it took a long time for competitors to realize it was bogus) and thus the productivity of our country? I do hope the Governor of California (now drowning as companies flee to better serviced regions) personally shoves his size 14 foot straight up this company full of snake oil salesmen while letting them know what he thinks of companies that hype bizarre and costly technologies that they know don’t work as promised.

As far as taking their “service” –realize they have _ALL_ of the customer service, billing and support problems that go with not turning a profit in a capital intensive business over a multi-year period and decide for yourself if you want in. Yes, there’s some people who take their service from the middle of a ghetto and then say online “look ma, 12Mbps!” (because the people around them don’t want or can’t afford to use the capacity built for that region). In most regions, people report inconsistent performance in the 512K-3Mbps range, sometimes spiking to a little under 6Mbps and their “stores” can barely stay connected –oh, and they’ve being sued over all this stuff.

With consistent 1-3Mbps 3G speeds now available, it’s not even worth looking at WiMax –not even for an extra $10/mo (the poorly written drivers that flip those combo 3G/Beceem devices back and forth will suck weeks of your life away too) and there will be nationwide HSPA+ in a few more days.

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Dell Notebooks on Sprint with Integrated 3G/4G: Mobile « — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:01:52 +0000

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By: Roger Weeks

Roger Weeks — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:49:03 +0000

What about the South Bay? I could care less about coverage in San Francisco. There’s a lot more people between Palo Alto and Fremont and San Jose than there is in San Francisco…

By: Jeff at Clear

Jeff at Clear — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:18:28 +0000

FYI If you visit CLEAR’s coverage maps you can see where exactly people can expect to be covered in LA and NY by toggling on the “future coverage” shading.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:01:05 +0000

Yup, it’s quite common for some towers to be lit for testing purposes before full market launches. When I was in San Fran for our Mobilize conference last month, a few HTC EVO 4G handsets were connecting to the WiMAX network, but results were hit or miss due since it was pre-launch.

By: David

David — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:42:01 +0000

I have a Clear WiFi Hotspot in Manhattan and there are alreday towers for 4G in operation here but the service has not been so very good. I was at a conference in SF a couple of weeks ago and I’m picking up 4G there as well but could not get a connection.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:39:28 +0000

for me the excitement of clearwire WiMAX has far more to do with the unlimited usage plans than the speed. i have used a few different 3G mobile broadband solution and find they have plenty of speed for my usage but i need far more than bandwidth caps allow for.

i am also hopeful that when offered as unlimited wimax will be a competitor against cable and DSL hopefully driving down the price of those services.