So, it looks like CLEAR WiMAX will be finally coming to Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte (the latter of which already has CLEAR-branded 4G services) on December 1.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091014005816&newsLang=en

The prices are stupid. TWC wants you to bundle this with your existing coax internet, whereas I would want to replace this horrible service and its capped 40Kbps uploads with 4G altogether. I'm sure the pricing here will destroy all attractiveness.

U-verse, please expand to the Triangle's outlying suburbs. Please.

10/15/2009 5:00:35 AM

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although, i have to admit i do like this thread title better.

10/15/2009 6:39:00 AM

$40 for 2gb/month?

hah, right...good try, twc

10/15/2009 7:59:33 AM

yeah, i won't lock this one due to it being a better thread title.

10/15/2009 9:17:59 AM

Everytime I read TWC's 4G and 3G network I keep thinking AT&T. lol

10/15/2009 10:54:29 AM

i hope i never move back to a TWC service area ever again in my life.

this is being rolled out as part of the Sprint/Clearwire deal from last year, both Comcast & TWC will be in on this deal of bundling it with their existing internet options.

i'll wait for LTE to come out on Verizon and bundle it with FIOS, kkthx. screw crappy AT&T and Sprint.

10/15/2009 11:51:56 AM

I assume you live outside of the triangle?

FiOS is still vaporware around these parts...

10/15/2009 12:54:33 PM

Hopefully they have decent drivers for Win7 out by the time they roll it out for you guys. I got the 4G card from Sprint to try out last week and they didn't have Win7 drivers yet, so I had to return it.

There's only that one card with Sprint - maybe Clear and the others have other 4G devices. let us know how they work once you get them...

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10/15/2009 1:22:41 PM

well... when verizon sold off their landlines in NC, frontier said they *might* expand fios coverage... so at least there's a small sliver of hope

or maybe more of NC will grow some balls and start their own municipal ISP/cable provider with FTTH like wilson did with greenlight

10/15/2009 1:49:00 PM

Sprint's 4G Coverage in NC:


Truly unlimited for $69.99/month:


I've got the u300 4G card, and it is pretty quick-I actually dropped Road Runner after 13 years

10/15/2009 10:39:15 PM

yeah thats the card i tried

no win 7 drivers makes me

10/15/2009 11:26:41 PM

So you could just pop this card into your home desktop and use it as your main internet?

I like CLEAR's solution better of giving you an at-home modem, but then again, that's not portable...

10/16/2009 12:23:01 AM

when everyone says "CLEAR," are they referring to clearwire?

and if so, why do you keep calling it just "CLEAR"?

10/16/2009 8:16:00 AM

i always assumed it was clearwire, just rebranded to clear. they only write CLEAR on their product boxes, their employees' polo shirts, etc. so everyone has started calling them CLEAR... but I'm not 100% on whether they're the same company or their history

10/16/2009 9:50:53 AM

no, "Clear" service is the WiMax branch of Clearwire, but it's kind of branded as it's own company.

The original Clearwire service is based on some kind of cell network I think, maybe 3G, i dunno. But it's not WiMax

10/16/2009 10:00:57 AM

i wonder if they'll be using the motorola USBw 200

10/16/2009 10:42:30 AM

Quote :

"So you could just pop this card into your home desktop and use it as your main internet?"

You could, or you can get a router for the usb card. This way, when I'm home, I have wifi for the laptop + desktop is hard-wired to the router. And when I'm gone, the usb card plugs right into the laptop.

Linksys WRT54G3G V2-ST:

10/16/2009 10:49:07 AM

i have fios where i live now, moving to my new condo in a month (woo), but it doesn't have fios (boo)

10/17/2009 6:39:49 PM

Quote :

"RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Sprint and Clearwire, following up on an initial announcement in August, will launch high-speed “4G” wireless broadband services in North Carolina markets in November. The Triangle, the Triad and Charlotte are included. Sprint (See Web site)and Clearwire (See Web site) will offer separate services but will utilize Clearwire’s WiMax technology. Other cities where the service is to be rolled next month out include Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas. Service will launch in Hawaii in December. Sprint plans to have service in more than 30 markets, including Atlanta, by the end of the year. The Sprint and Clearwire rollouts make North Carolina one of the first major battlegrounds for 4G service since Time Warner Cable and AT&T are planning 4G or faster speed services. Time Warner announced Road Runner Mobile last week. Sprint is promising delivery speeds of up to 10 megabits per second with an average downlink speed of between three and six Mbps. 3G supports up to two Mbps speed. Sprint first launched 4G in Baltimore last year. (To compare 4G vs. 3G, check this site.) Sprint is rolling out a variety of hardware to support the 4G service, including mobile broadband routers."

10/23/2009 4:39:37 PM