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patcat88

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Lets see what "Open" involves, pay per MB billing, no unlimited option, should take care of all the P2Pers, and the wolves investing into the service (cable companies).

Nothing like stiring up the NN folks by their cap running out in 1 hour after streaming HD. Remember, the cable companies are investors on this and they WONT let WiMAX bastardize their Cable HSI, remember that carefully.

Remember your wimax will be a nice and slow 5mbit/s, or even slower tiers, think ADSL, not cable speeds, and remember the caps.

Perhaps Sprint should have advertised Xohm as being "Green", since not building it saves alot of greenhouse gases.
Corydon
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Re: open

Minor nit:

5 mbit/s would be some seriously slow service. m (milli) ≠ M (mega), just like b (bit) ≠ B (byte).

/pet peeve, but it makes a difference when you're comparing services!
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Re: open

Well if you're going to be that picky, a bit is an atomic thing that can't be broken down below an integer value. So millibits as a unit doesn't make any sense at all anyway.
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said by patcat88 See Profile :

Remember your wimax will be a nice and slow 5mbit/s, or even slower tiers, think ADSL, not cable speeds, and remember the caps.
5Mb is slow ?

please....leave your urban environment once in a while and see what the majority of the US has. My 3.5M/512K wireless service is fine - not "slow" by any means, for what I (and probably 95% of the rest of US households) use it for.

I suspect I would probably make the jump to WiMAX if there was mobility involved (the capability of connecting from anywhere Clearwire offered service) and speeds equaled or exceeded my current fixed wireless.
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