S_engineer Premium Member join:2007-05-16 Chicago, IL |
Good luckI wonder when the tin foil hats will claim that this is causing defects in Portlands children? | |
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Re: Good luckI thought that was already proven to be caused by the tin foil hat. | |
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Marylander
Anon
2009-Jan-6 6:33 pm
Weaker than XohmIf you compare the "Clear" plans to the current Xohm offerings "Clear" is a lot less competitive.
I don't understand why they'd eagerly "unveil" a weaker product in this kind of market. | |
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Smile__
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2009-Jan-6 7:29 pm
Re: Weaker than XohmMarylander,
How's those 24MB/18MB speeds at the college? lol | |
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| FFH5 Premium Member join:2002-03-03 Tavistock NJ |
to Marylander
I thought Wimax was a 4G product. The upload speeds being offered are pretty anemic for 4G - they barely compete with the 3G wireless offerings from the telcos. | |
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Greyface
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2009-Jan-7 9:47 pm
Re: Weaker than Xohm» en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAXIt's a group of broadcasting technologies suitable for longer-range broadcasting than Wi-fi. It's usually cheaper to set up and run, although it can be used in close proximity for theoretically tremendous speeds. | |
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Wrong Price» www.clear.com/home_services.phpThe 6/512 tier is $40, not $50. Provides nice counterpoint to cable if you ask me, though Verizon DSL is a slightly better deal if available. Beats "dry" AT&T DSL though. | |
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Re: Wrong Pricesaid by iansltx:» www.clear.com/home_services.phpThe 6/512 tier is $40, not $50. Provides nice counterpoint to cable if you ask me, though Verizon DSL is a slightly better deal if available. Beats "dry" AT&T DSL though. And Qwest's "We really don't want to but the PUC made us" rural 1.5Mbps Dry DSL for $58/month... | |
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Re: Wrong PriceBetter than $60/month for satellite 1 Mbps, or $69.95 for 1 Mbps fixed wireless that's rather unreliable to say theleast. Feel better now? | |
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Re: Wrong PriceA little bit. Actually, considering where I live, I consider myself fortunate to get any kind of broadband service.
Clear was advertising for a local project engineer here a year or so ago, so I'm hoping they'll be offering Wimax service at some point. | |
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PDXPLT
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2009-Jan-6 6:56 pm
Home Plan Business modelI don't see how they're going to succeed with the home plan. They appear to only be deploying in areas already served by Comcast, Verizon, and/or Qwest. Being the third entrant to a territory means they need to compete on price alone; not easy.
Of course, they did not deploy in my neighborhood, or anywhere near. If they did, they'd own the broadband market here. | |
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Smile__ Premium Member join:2008-10-10 New Freedom, PA |
Smile__
Premium Member
2009-Jan-6 7:30 pm
Go XOHM! | |
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yeahyeah, tell me about it.. Everyone deploys in already saturated markets First one to provide a reliable service (( i'm good with 95 percent up time )).. And i'm going to be a long term customer.... | |
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wesm Premium Member join:1999-07-29 Seattle, WA |
wesm
Premium Member
2009-Jan-7 2:12 am
Delay?Does anyone know what the actual delay is in getting the other prospective markets going? Dallas has been running great for a few months (XOHM is my only connection at home), as have Chicago and others. Why go to the trouble of getting an entire WiMAX network built for "testing" if it's taking so long to launch? | |
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Pushing it hardIt was sad in a way seeing them in multiple parts of the city trying to push that product on people in the rain today. They were by Powels Books on Burnside and on Broadway by the Portland State Univeristy Campus.
Students are not going to pay for it I would imagine since they have free wireless and by Powels Books .. Personal Telco offers some free wifi access points.
They were shoving the brochures in peoples hands. It was bad. Happy with Fios... | |
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EIC
Anon
2009-Jan-7 1:41 pm
hardly newsyeah, it would be a lot less like a press release parroted up by a halfwit if you included . .. .gosh, I don't know: What state Portland is in? | |
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