Portland eyes Clearwire WiMax launch
By Dave Jeyes
Clearwire is set to launch its wireless Internet access service this morning in Portland, Oregon just four months after its initial launch in Baltimore. The company is also set to introduce its new brand during this rollout, confusingly dubbed just Clear.
Since it launched in September, Clearwire service has only been available in Baltimore. While the company won’t say how uptake rates are in Baltimore, Clearwire officials say that the launch is going as expected.
Also debuting in Portland is a new $20 per month offering for a 768 Kb home Internet connection. Combine that with a mobile connection and the price jumps to $60. If you want to connect two laptops, it will run you $80 per month.
The entry level price point in Baltimore is $25 per month, an introductory rate for their $35 home service. However in Baltimore Clearwire promises 2-4 Mbps downloads.
Clearwire is also launching new home and personal modems as part of its launch in Portland. The home modem looks similar to a cable modem and the laptop is a small USB stick.
WiMax technology can service a much wider area than a wireless router in a fashion similar to a cell phone network. It could have the potential to replace cellular connections, but there isn’t enough coverage yet to be a full replacement.
Clearwire is also preparing to launch a voice calling plan using VoIP over a user’s Clear connection. The plan will cost an additional $25 per month for unlimited US calling by plugging an adaptor into a standard land line phone.
In addition to launching the Clear brand, Clearwire is also releasing a portal called www.clear365.com. The portal offers news, entertainment and email services for Clearwire customers in Baltimore and Clear customers in Portland.
WiMax is another option that is competing with municipal WiFi and the FCC white space plan to offer ubiquitous Internet access in major cities. As it grows, WiMax can also provide Internet access in rural areas where other broadband providers cannot reach.
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January 7th, 2009
Wow ,
Those are like the slowest wireless speeds in the world,
Well not quite, but might as well be, 768 kpbs – rediculous,
and 2- 4 mbps was standard like 2 years ago,
February 3rd, 2009
Eric Carlson and Joan Wagar, A,K,A, Doubleclick and Mrs Dash,( yes those are there nicknames they gave each other.) admitted to poisoning me while I was a plasma donor back in 2005.
Eric Carlson pedofied me behind prison walls and then framed me as a pedophile on march 26th 2007, I caught the crime on a audio recorder I put in Joan’s purse.
there were people in authority helping them with this and nobody in authority will help they pretend nothing happened and refuse to investigate this.
Eric Carlson changed his hair color and his name but this is not hidden, only ignored by the authority’s and media
I’m disabled from being poisoned and the hospitals refuse to admit I’m poisoned.
My Family is in danger from these people and I have no other recorse but to make these charges public.
My name is Terry Wagar,Im from Portland Oregon and I’m backing up these charges.
I have been threatened with harassment charges by a Sargent Walker, She is a portland police officer stationed at the OHSU hospital, for the non crime of reporting a multi murder conspiracy within that hospital.
They don’t give a s4!t Joan and Eric was poisoning a plasma donor!
Why don’t you give A s4!t Portland Authority’s, its already reported.
Where did Mrs Dash keep her stash?
In A garlic salt shaker, nuff said!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/11/382778.shtml