| WiMax....meh Clear in Portland is a joke
"we cover an entire city with fast mobile internet" - Riiigght
3G from cell providers have more coverage than clear.
Only 6Mb/1Mb? (with full signal strength) and latency between DSL and 3G?
Not a true DSL/Cable competitor....yet....if ever
False advertising...I really wish it wasn't. More broadband providers in a metro area the better. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1
1 edit | TELCO SHILL!!!
Clear wire provides 100% of the rated speed at all times. Its a true wire replacement broadband connection. The coverage is excellent as rated by XXXXXXXXXX Magazine and XXXXXXXXXX Consumer Research Group. Clear is here now and leaves the telephone company and their megabytes in the dirt.
</sarcasm>
Yeah, sure WiMAX is what all the WiMAX investors and their lobbyist groups want. Unless each street intersection has a picotower with fiber backhaul, you won't have wireline performance. Clear is a new network, the cell companies already have fiber or MW to most of their towers, and the cell companies already have real world usage/density figures and the tower locations. It will be years (if ever depending on the CEOs whim) before Clear hammers out its network problems. How many legacy fixed-only proprietary WiMAX markets is Clear still running? |
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| Here's a thread over on HoFo where some users post their real world results with Clear/Sprint: »www.howardforums.com/showthread.···=1&pp=15
Not too shabby imo. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | It gives local cable company upload speeds a run for their money. Well, until every P2Per learns Clear is faster and bogs it down till Karl writes "Clear adds caps without informing anyone today". |
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| reply to PDXArgg
I'm in Portland. I now use Clear for my home internet. I get between 4-10mb down, .5-1mb up. $27.50/month.
Because the duopoly in Portland before was Qwest/Comcast, I now no longer have to decide between paying $39.99/month for 1.5mb down Qwest DSL or $52.95/month for Comcast 6mb down with Powerboost.
All I want now is for there to be wimax phones so I can bundle! |
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