charcaroth

September 18, 2009 at 5:24am

I can't speak for you folks out in the technological wastlands around Silicon Valley, but here in terribly technologically astute North Carolina we've had Clearwire for several years at that price and it works fine.  Clearwire has let folks operate month-to-month without a long term contract, in fact.  I heard last week that they're partnering in various areas nationwide with Sprint to provide a cross 4G/3G service which is the "Clear" designation you see above on the map.  The device would be USB or express card interface and would use the 4G WiMax network where available, mostly in the downtown areas where Clearwire already covers, then switches automatically to 3G on Sprint to cover the suburbs and interstate corridors.  Now if Sprint will just forego the lengthy contract and improve their 3G service areas, Gomer could get connectivity out out behind Wally's Filling Station for his LTO-5 tape libraries.