| Small towns! Why not Austin, Houston? Temple, TX? Come on, now. Missed me by 50 miles. Bad choice. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | There's nothing in Southern California (LA market area) as well, which covers ~15 million people.
WiMAX is 'supposed' to be able to assist in coverage in rural areas that have no other carrier - eg. Houston/LA, etc. all have multiple carriers. These rural areas won't have DSL/Cable, making WiMAX/Clear a very valid choice.
Clear 'should' deploy in those towns/cities that are TWC/AT&T only and have the 5-40GB caps. |
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
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Doesn't Austin or Houston already have broadband? Do those smaller towns?
I used Clearwire WiMax while in Portland and I loved it. But what I didn't like about it is that it overlaid areas already served by broadband and missed nearby areas that were very hungry for it (North Plains).
Maybe this Texas strategy is to spread the broadband love a bit, I don't know. I'm not familiar with those towns at all.
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I'm surprised that Dallas/Fort Worth is also missing (closest market is Waco, south of the Metroplex on I-35). |
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | reply to en102
said by en102:There's nothing in Southern California (LA market area) as well, which covers ~15 million people. WiMAX is 'supposed' to be able to assist in coverage in rural areas that have no other carrier - eg. Houston/LA, etc. all have multiple carriers. These rural areas won't have DSL/Cable, making WiMAX/Clear a very valid choice. Clear 'should' deploy in those towns/cities that are TWC/AT&T only and have the 5-40GB caps. Apparently there are a number of "secret" markets that havent been revealed yet. I heard NYC was on that list, but I dont recall if Southern California was. I am not sure why they have a secret list, but I have read it a few places online.
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I think that "80 markets in 18 months" sounded good to investors and so they're picking a lot of smaller markets to flesh out the major launches... |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | said by Karl Bode:I think that "80 markets in 18 months" sounded good to investors and so they're picking a lot of smaller markets to flesh out the major launches... Most providers pick smaller markets when rolling out new services. This enables them to work the bugs out before dropping it on a city of 5 million (plus). Once they determine everything works (service, billing, tech support) they feel comfortable deploying it to all their tier 1 locations.
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DFW is in the list above right after Charlotte for markets that are supposed to be covered in '09. |
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 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to Karl Bode
Or maybe with larger city regulations, its not quite cost effective yet. |
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Golden, CO
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Midland, Lubbock, Amarillo, etc. are AT&T for DSL (if available), Suddenlink for cable. SL is very stingy on the upload side, to I wouldn't be surprised if the uncapped (I'm guessing that's what the 10 Mbps burstable tier is) servie level beat every other ISP option for upload speed, while still maintaining a decent price point.
Also, Amarillo for one is already a Clearwire market, using the old tech. |
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said by wifi4milez:Apparently there are a number of "secret" markets that havent been revealed yet. I heard NYC was on that list, but I dont recall if Southern California was. I am not sure why they have a secret list, but I have read it a few places online. Clearwire was advertising for a project deployment engineer to work in Albuquerque a year or so ago, but I've never seen a list with Albuquerque listed as a deployment city. |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | said by travelguy:said by wifi4milez:Apparently there are a number of "secret" markets that havent been revealed yet. I heard NYC was on that list, but I dont recall if Southern California was. I am not sure why they have a secret list, but I have read it a few places online. Clearwire was advertising for a project deployment engineer to work in Albuquerque a year or so ago, but I've never seen a list with Albuquerque listed as a deployment city. Same with NYC/NJ, and a few other places not on the list. There is evidence to support a larger rollout, I am not entirely sure why they dont just come out and say it. Perhaps they are trying to be sneaky (to the competition), but if we (people reading this thread) can figure it out I guarantee the big telcos can too.
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| Plausible deniability: If they don't announce it, people won't complain if they later cancel that rollout for whatever reasons. |
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 alanxenosH. Sapien
join:2008-09-26
Winnetka, IL | reply to wifi4milez
We are smarter than most telcos. |
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to baineschile
They probably don't want to kill business from Sprint CDMA/EVDO.
Even though Sprint owns a large portion of Clear, they are separate companies. |
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TWC techs in my area are saying Cleveland, OH is suppose to be on the list for 2009 or Q1 of 2010. |
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