S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | Good luck
I wonder when the tin foil hats will claim that this is causing defects in Portlands children? |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | I thought that was already proven to be caused by the tin foil hat.
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Toolmaster of La Grange. |
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Marylander
@umbc.edu | Weaker than Xohm
If you compare the "Clear" plans to the current Xohm offerings "Clear" is a lot less competitive.
I don't understand why they'd eagerly "unveil" a weaker product in this kind of market. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
 ·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Wrong Price
»www.clear.com/home_services.php
The 6/512 tier is $40, not $50. Provides nice counterpoint to cable if you ask me, though Verizon DSL is a slightly better deal if available. Beats "dry" AT&T DSL though. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| Home Plan Business model
I don't see how they're going to succeed with the home plan. They appear to only be deploying in areas already served by Comcast, Verizon, and/or Qwest. Being the third entrant to a territory means they need to compete on price alone; not easy.
Of course, they did not deploy in my neighborhood, or anywhere near. If they did, they'd own the broadband market here. |
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Smile__
Premium
join:2008-10-10
New Freedom, PA | reply to Marylander
Re: Weaker than Xohm
Marylander,
How's those 24MB/18MB speeds at the college? lol |
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Smile__
Premium
join:2008-10-10
New Freedom, PA | Go XOHM!
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
| yeah
yeah, tell me about it.. Everyone deploys in already saturated markets  First one to provide a reliable service (( i'm good with 95 percent up time )).. And i'm going to be a long term customer.... |
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
| reply to iansltx
Re: Wrong Price
said by iansltx  :» www.clear.com/home_services.phpThe 6/512 tier is $40, not $50. Provides nice counterpoint to cable if you ask me, though Verizon DSL is a slightly better deal if available. Beats "dry" AT&T DSL though. And Qwest's "We really don't want to but the PUC made us" rural 1.5Mbps Dry DSL for $58/month... |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ | reply to Marylander
Re: Weaker than Xohm
I thought Wimax was a 4G product. The upload speeds being offered are pretty anemic for 4G - they barely compete with the 3G wireless offerings from the telcos. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | reply to travelguy
Re: Wrong Price
Better than $60/month for satellite 1 Mbps, or $69.95 for 1 Mbps fixed wireless that's rather unreliable to say theleast. Feel better now?  |
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wesm
tmb.org
Premium
join:1999-07-29
Lewisville, TX
|  Delay?
Does anyone know what the actual delay is in getting the other prospective markets going? Dallas has been running great for a few months (XOHM is my only connection at home), as have Chicago and others. Why go to the trouble of getting an entire WiMAX network built for "testing" if it's taking so long to launch?
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kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR
clubs:
·Gizmo5
·Skype
·Vitelity VOIP
·magicjack.com
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·Vonage
·ViaTalk
·VoicePulse
| Pushing it hard
It was sad in a way seeing them in multiple parts of the city trying to push that product on people in the rain today. They were by Powels Books on Burnside and on Broadway by the Portland State Univeristy Campus.
Students are not going to pay for it I would imagine since they have free wireless and by Powels Books .. Personal Telco offers some free wifi access points.
They were shoving the brochures in peoples hands. It was bad. Happy with Fios...
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
| reply to iansltx
Re: Wrong Price
A little bit. Actually, considering where I live, I consider myself fortunate to get any kind of broadband service.
Clear was advertising for a local project engineer here a year or so ago, so I'm hoping they'll be offering Wimax service at some point. |
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EIC
@norcalbroadband.net | hardly news
yeah, it would be a lot less like a press release parroted up by a halfwit if you included . .. .gosh, I don't know: What state Portland is in? |
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Greyface
@or.us
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Re: Weaker than Xohm
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
It's a group of broadcasting technologies suitable for longer-range broadcasting than Wi-fi. It's usually cheaper to set up and run, although it can be used in close proximity for theoretically tremendous speeds. |
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