| reply to kapil
Re: Oh Sprint. Great and thoughtful post! Haven't there been people buying and activating XOHM hardware outside of Baltimore (like DC, Philly, and I believe even Chicago area)? I imagine as long as they don't get shut down they can lock in with the more favorable XOHM vs Clear plan (provided they are in coverage). I know that DSL and even cable providers here in Baltimore must be shaking in their boots at competition from the home connection plans and speeds (especially upload speeds).
Wayne |
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join:2002-02-17
Hickory, NC | Well, as a Xohm customer in the Chicago area, I can say that Clear has a long way to go to fill in the MANY gaps of coverage they have here. I realize it's not officially launched, but they were supposed to go live with Xohm here before the end of 2008.
If they choose the Xohm pricing model here, it will probably take off like a rocket ship. If they choose Clear's pricing model, well...they might fail miserably.
I'm just happy to be locked in at $50/mo. for both my home and USB modem. The towers here in Chicago still need more bandwidth as I believe they are still being fed by T1 or microwave depending on the site as my speeds are pretty miserable out in the Aurora and Schaumburg areas. If I go downtown Chicago, they are fantastic.
I hope Clear is successful, but caps and high pricing is not going to help them in the 4G race as LTE might just sneak up on them and have the marketing power of the AT&T and Verizon names backing them even if they are capped and restricted as many are predicting. The good thing about WiMax is that there are no contracts and it is available in some markets already today. |
