RSSClearwire announces a ten-city simultaneous WiMAX launch
By Tim Conneally | Published August 3, 2009, 1:52 PM
On September first, Clearwire Communications plans to launch new WiMax networks in ten markets simultaneously. These will include Boise, Idaho, Bellingham, Washington, and eight markets in Texas: Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Killeen/Temple, Waco, and Wichita Falls.
This will be the first time that Clearwire celebrates launches in more than a single market at a time, and customers in these markets can activate service immediately through Clear.com. Resellers such as Sprint, Comcast, or Time Warner, however, have not yet been announced for these markets.
Clear is still expected to launch WiMAX networks in Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Philadelphia, and Seattle before the end of the year.
They have already given it to us here in Abilene, TX and its real nice. Been with Clearwire for a while now but the new speeds are real nice. I'm not considering going to another ISP for faster speeds anymore. The upgrade was free and even lowered my bill by $4 to $30/month.
I agree, here in TX the land is more or less flat so all is good here. I've never had a bad signal from them. I've had a low signal at times but as long as you have at least 2 of the 5 lights on your modem lit then you are getting full speeds. Also have a friend who lives way way out in the country and gets a good steady signal.
I sound like a fanboy I suppose, but the new upgrade which doubled the speeds is only 2 days old for me after at least 3-4 years with them.
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|I'm not sure of the terrain in the Washington and Idaho areas noted, but the Texas locations are flat land. That will make things easier to start, but problems dealing with reflective energy and multipath in general will need to be dealt with before a wide rollout happens. That is, unless the people in areas where there are multipath problems simply get told to suck it up.
I have yet to see anyone hazarding a guess as to the fees that will be wanted/needed to make this venture go. Now that I think of it, that might just be another reason for these areas being chosen, Beggars can't be choosers.
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|It's interesting to see these areas receiving service early. Midland/Odessa *seemed* pretty much in the middle of nowhere, as I'd driven past them on I-20. Of course, that makes for a more serviceable area should things go wrong, so that they can get the service working smoothly for more populous areas.
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