Clear WiMax Router Hitting Barren Shelves In April

WiMax Wireless — 31 March 2009

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Clear Wimax has hit Portland like a kamikaze swarm of locusts in a hijacked crop dusting plane. I recently heard a horror story testimonial of how a subscriber in Seattle last year was told by a customer service rep that they should sublet the rest of their service contract on Craig’s List if they wanted out. Plus they said that the service was so slow it was unusable. That was a year ago so I’m sure things have changed for the better.

Recently confirmed for a sometime in April release is the ClearWire manufactured WiMax Wifi Portable Wireless Router. The router will house up to eight 802.11 b/g-compatible devices at speeds of 4Mbs for the hot price of $139. Bloop. That is not taking into account your normal service fees. As I have posted before, Oregon’s 10% unemployment rate will have a great impact on the success or failure of this service.

[Engadget]

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Well, the Seattle story is either a lie or a jumbled amalgamation of stories, because Clear wiMAX is only in Portland so far.
ratstew

I have one of these routers. It works great! In Portland and Vancouver the speeds are sometimes twice the advertized speed. I can’t wait for new hardware such as the Samsung Mondi that will work on this network. Kudos to Sprint and Clearwire!
http://none stanford

CLEAR kept charging me after I cancelled the service (no reception). Modem sat in a box why I racked up hundreds of dollars in fees. When realized what was happening, I called CLEAR, and they read me the fine print. Hundreds of dollars charged for ZERO kilobytes used. Ethical?

I told them I wanted to keep the modem, b/c I was moving and would re-start it up. They said fine, but the money was still theirs.

I will NEVER use this company again……EVER!
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