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Re: [Fixed] Seattle, WA - AVOID Clear Wireless!! Thank you for all of the responses.
I travel to Redmond & Kirkland where my mobile service works fine.
But there are a number of areas that are having chronic issues and they appear to be predominantly in and around Downtown Seattle & West Seattle.
After spending over 5 months trying to resolve the problem with my service degrading I recently learned that a large portion of the towers in the area require major upgrades or hardware replacements which are not slated to begin for another 2 months or longer.
Apparently a lot of these locations are towers that were formerly owned by Sprint before their transfer to Clearwire.
Unfortunately they are stating that it will be late November before they begin working on these towers.
After reading many forums here and elsewhere, it seems this is a common problem nationwide in areas with towers that are over a year old.
It seems that Clear's focus has been with rapid expansion rather than proper maintenance and monitoring of existing facilities and relying on sub-contractors who apparently are not doing a proper job.
In any case, I expect service to degrade in other areas once they mature and become neglected by Clear .... or had low quality hardware installed that begins to fail.
In any case, this is why I will be switching back to cable, DSL or FIOS once I move to the Eastside soon.
FYI, Bellevue and some of the surrounding areas appear to be experiencing similar issues recently. |
