benc
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| If Clearwire Wants To Succeed...
...then instead of deploying to areas that already have lots of broadband options, they should deploy to areas with one, or even no options at all. Rural areas is what comes to mind here.
So perhaps such areas would have fewer people per square mile, and fewer potential customers. But so what? More of these "fewer potential customers" would no doubt sign up in a heartbeat, and they would be less likely to cancel.
What I describe, is in effect the only way that HughesNet remains in business. I can't think of a single HughesNet customer who'd keep the service if even DSL, or even a WISP became available to them. |
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dcdeadbeat
join:2008-10-07
Washington, DC
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| The problem is that rural markets are not profitable and Clear is a for-profit company. If they do roll out to rural markets the price they will need to charge will be high and then people will complain that they need government subsidies.
This rural versus urban argument has been played out over and over on this forum. The real answer is that they are a telcom that must make money in order to survive. This means going where the most money can be made.
I am just curious why D.C. was left off the list from the original planed rollout. The network is live here so why not go ahead and open it up. |
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MoJeeper
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Springfield, MO
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| They will never amount to anything.
You have At&t with 3g with their deep pockets and Verizon-Alltel pushing their new service
Wildblue and Hughesnet just plain suck.
We have a Motorola Canopy WISP but they are so overpriced compared to the already pricey 3g wireless from At&t, Verizon-Alltel. »www.tahighspeed.com/index.html
At&t was out here a few months ago checking the copper getting ready for Uverse.
I will stick with Alltel until At&t lights off the Uverse.
Good Luck Clearwire
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benc
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| said by MoJeeper  :We have a Motorola Canopy WISP but they are so overpriced compared to the already pricey 3g wireless from At&t, Verizon-Alltel. » www.tahighspeed.com/index.html Dang, those prices do indeed seem a bit stiff. They seem like prices that I'd pay only if it was really the best option.
What I'd wonder though, is this:
- Caps?
- Restrictions (P2P, can run servers, etc.)?
- Static IP?
The fact that AT&T 3G has a 5GB cap (and a high price for only 5GB) is enough reason to keep me from wanting to ever use it as a primary connection, since that amount is truly just way too low. |
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hdman
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| reply to dcdeadbeat
I agree....however....there should be NO stimulus money given to ANY ISP who is deploying to an area already served by broadband. Obummer better make sure that ANY stimulus money for expansion of broadband goes to companies who are expanding into unserved areas....period.
They also need to stop allowing large companies like AT&T get away with using sat. based service to say that they cover the rural markets. That is load of crap...that is NOT broadband...and I don't care how you define it. If you've ever had sat based service, you will know what I mean....
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hahah
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they will be out of business before 10 markets are rolled out |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| WiMAX is dead
So much for WiMAX having any end user difference between 3G and WiMAX. LTE will slaughter WiMAX when it comes out in 2010. WiMAX will be laughed at as Verizon/Sprint's CDMA is now for being a crazy proprietary USA invention.
LTE has set frequency bands, WiMAX doesn't, so every WiMAX carrier can make their own permanently locked adapter by just including only the frequency bands it licenses. Each country has different frequency bands too, so you can't even take your carrier provided WiMAX card out of the country.
If Sprint never wired the rural/new suburban areas of the USA (leaving it looking like hub and spoke, with the spokes being interstates between major cities), why would Clear put coverage up in more areas than Sprint? Why would Clear have more coverage than Sprint in the next 4 years? |
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bcltoys
join:2008-07-21
Earleville, MD | Will they at least cover there 3g footprint. |
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BillRoland
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| reply to patcat88
said by patcat88 :So much for WiMAX having any end user difference between 3G and WiMAX. LTE will slaughter WiMAX when it comes out in 2010. WiMAX will be laughed at as Verizon/Sprint's CDMA is now for being a crazy proprietary USA invention. What are they laughing at, CDMA2000 (IS-2000) or CDMA as in code division multiple access?
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kieranmullen
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| reply to benc
Re: If Clearwire Wants To Succeed...
Agreed. They seem to pushing strongly in Portland Oregon. Al the small cell phone shops are also selling clear as well. We have qwest, verizon,(fios and dsl) comcast plus cell operators. Overall Portland is pretty wired. Perhaps it is becuase Intel has a base here? |
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JJV
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Seattle, WA
clubs: | Any updates on Seattle.
I keep asking around about the status of Seattle.
The clearwire people here dont seem to know anything. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to BillRoland
Re: WiMAX is dead
said by BillRoland :said by patcat88 :So much for WiMAX having any end user difference between 3G and WiMAX. LTE will slaughter WiMAX when it comes out in 2010. WiMAX will be laughed at as Verizon/Sprint's CDMA is now for being a crazy proprietary USA invention. What are they laughing at, CDMA2000 (IS-2000) or CDMA as in code division multiple access? CDMA2000, I should have been specific, but everyone knows in the context of cellphone networks, CDMA=CDMA2000. There is nothing else known by CDMA. Nobody refers to WCDMA as CDMA. |
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jay_rm
join:2002-04-12
Netville
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| reply to patcat88
said by patcat88 :So much for WiMAX having any end user difference between 3G and WiMAX. LTE will slaughter WiMAX when it comes out in 2010. WiMAX will be laughed at as Verizon/Sprint's CDMA is now for being a crazy proprietary USA invention. Bit of a Euro-centric GSM booster, aren't you...
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jarschmi
join:2007-07-18
Milwaukee, WI
| Re: Clear
There are huge pockets of monopolized broadband regions in every market that Clear/Sprint is planning deployment (CHI, DFW, Atlanta, DC...). I look forward to having a legitimate competitor to force the monopolies to provide better or less costly service options.
They've been hiring sales associates in DFW for several weeks now, and I'm very curious about their plans for the area. I'm definitely a potential customer...3G is waaay too expensive for a primary connection, Charter is awful (and not even available to me), ATT refuses to upgrade huge areas of DSL territory to UVerse, and Verizon is deploying FIOS very slowly.
Give me some options!!! |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to hdman
Re: If Clearwire Wants To Succeed...
I had wild blue, so I know what you mean. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to patcat88
Re: WiMAX is dead
It may look dead right now, but we never know if the future some1 may revive wimax and make it the new 'best' thing. Granted by then there may be something new, so even LTE by then may be out classed. |
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Samsonian
join:2007-06-15
| reply to patcat88
Man that's a lot of FUD.
The WiMAX Forum has defined 3 spectrum profiles: 2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz, and will certainly create more in the future.
WiMAX CPE isn't locked to anything.
Right now every device is tested against the operator's network for reliability reasons, just like many cell carriers do now. But, it's an expensive and time consuming process. Interoperability testing (IOT) by the WiMAX Forum is in full swing now, so an IOT certified device for a particular profile, will work on any network in that profile. No other testing or permissions will be needed.
Country specific band plans are irrelevant for this topic. WiMAX providers will only deploy in approved spectrum profiles. CPE should work across networks that support that band. Successful roaming tests have been done between different networks, including networks of different spectrum bands.
Current hardware typically only supports 1 band because that's what's practical for early versions of hardware (cost, performance, and power consumption factors). That won't be the case for future hardware, like Intel's next gen wireless chipset, code-named Evans Peak, coming late 2009/early 2010. It'll support WiMAX (2.3, 2.5, 3.5 GHz), WiFi a/b/g/n (2.4, 5 GHz), Bluetooth, and GPS. It also allows for 3rd party vendors to add in 3G and Mobile TV chips as well, and/or Intel could add a 3G chip themselves (as the recent Intel-Nokia deal allows them to).
Intel makes no secret they want to do for WiMAX in notebooks/netbooks and other devices what they did for WiFi (recall Centrino), and other standards like USB. Given who Intel is, and their history, I wouldn't bet against them. |
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phoneboy3
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| blah blah LTE blah blah yada yada
blah blah LTE blah blah. Look. LTE and WiMAX are very similar despite what nonsense the telcos tell you. They got a propaganda war going on to slow the adoption of WiMAX because it kills their inferior 3G business that they spent massive $'s building.
As far as LTE being just around the corner....forget it! It is at least 5 years away from wide scale availability. The telcos just finished spending huge money on 3G. Do you seriously think they are ready to spend more huge dollars on LTE....which isn't even ready to go yet btw.
So to summarize, WiMAX is much farther ahead right now. Chances are it will coexist with LTE and there will probably be devices that do both.
WiMAX has the edge because it is here now and won't have any of the licensing fees and limitations etc. the Telco's will have on LTE. Oh a BIG part of equation is spectrum. Clearwire owns a lot of WiMAX spectrum. Much more so than the Telco's and spectrum is everything. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to Samsonian
Re: WiMAX is dead
said by Samsonian :Man that's a lot of FUD. The WiMAX Forum has defined 3 spectrum profiles: 2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz, and will certainly create more in the future. I see bands outside that list.
»www.wimax.com/commentary/spotlig···-2006mw1
What about a carrier who wants to run it on a 700-800 or 400 mhz network for rural coverage?
»www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtm···93001507
Or companies and manufacturers who choose to not get WiMAX Forum certification? Then what? Its still called WiMAX.
»news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/537525
Country specific band plans are irrelevant for this topic. WiMAX providers will only deploy in approved spectrum profiles.
You think? If the license is cheaper or someone gets a license and the govt has no others, sure as hell a carrier will order a wimax chip from China for that band, and no other bands.
WiMAX is touted as operating even on unlicensed spectrum.
»www.networkevolutionvision.com/n···17539150
Current hardware typically only supports 1 band because that's what's practical for early versions of hardware (cost, performance, and power consumption factors).
We can say dialup is "practical" for rural broadband in the USA with your argument.
That won't be the case for future hardware, like Intel's next gen wireless chipset, code-named Evans Peak, coming late 2009/early 2010. It'll support WiMAX (2.3, 2.5, 3.5 GHz), WiFi a/b/g/n (2.4, 5 GHz), Bluetooth, and GPS. It also allows for 3rd party vendors to add in 3G and Mobile TV chips as well, and/or Intel could add a 3G chip themselves (as the recent Intel-Nokia deal allows them to). |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to jarschmi
Re: Clear
said by jarschmi :There are huge pockets of monopolized broadband regions in every market that Clear/Sprint is planning deployment (CHI, DFW, Atlanta, DC...). I look forward to having a legitimate competitor to force the monopolies to provide better or less costly service options. Chicago, ATT, TM, VZ, Sprint 3g.
Comcast AND RCN AND WOW. 3 cable companies, at minimum 2 overlap.
Chicago's burbs have Uverse »/gmaps/uverse (but its spotty in general).
SLAed fixed wireless also.
»www.bobbroadband.com/about_us.php
»www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/44h6205049.html
Hmm, rural residential fixed wireless too.
»foxvalley.net/www/Broadband
»www.telesti.com/coveragearea.htm
»www.air-wans.com/Maps/Air-WansMap.htm
I sure would like WISPs like that near my relatives place in upstate NY.
So how is Chicago a monopoly over any other city?
Because of the 2 cable overbuilders, it would be one of the lowest on the list. |
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