Well, what do we have here? One of our readers sent us a screenshot from Sprint's Sales Portal that included the above roadmap for its
WiMAX rollout this year. A number of the yet-to-be-launched cities we've already heard about --
Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Charlotte -- but to the best of our knowledge, the rest of them are brand new entries. Additionally, Baltimore residents can look forward to some sort of coverage update in the fourth quarter. We'd be lying if we said we weren't jealous that Salem (population 3,000) and Milledgeville (population 19,000) are getting the wireless network before most of us on staff, but the service has to start somewhere, right? No indication here of 2010 plans, but
last we heard that included Boston, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Update: As tipster Carlos points out, Clearwire's website already has some
coverage maps for some of the cities listed in the third quarter, as well as some markets not listed here.
posted August 1st 2009 5:35PM
No love for Los Angeles? Or does it already have it.. I don't live there, I live close, lol
+1 for Los Angeles :)
+1.
You would think
I mean NC? wtc :(
DC Please!
say waaaaaaaaaa!?
ok well ill defend milledgeville... they have georgia southern university which is a good idea.
college kids have laptops, and its a small area... so small investment big payoff
Ooh, Dallas. Can't wait.
its bosie idaho not bosie iowa. we are the hackeye state not potato state.
I'm British and even I noticed that mistake xD
It's not bosie iowa OR bosie idaho, numnuts.
Boise, Idaho.
I was just about to say this.
and we are also the Hawkeye state....
Potatoes, FTW.
I live in Portland and have had Clear WiMax for a while now. Is this different? Is it going to be supported by any phones that we know of?
I live in portland too and have just moved to sprint. I don't think they will have any phone hardware that can use it at first and they will only have a 3G/4G laptop modem.
There is a 3g/4g aircard on the market.
not on sprint though
You can always get an Intel Pro Wireless 5150 or 5350 A/B/G/N/WiMAX internal mPCIe card for your laptop on Ebay.
Sprint's service is waaaay different.
Well, not actually different.
Well okay, here's the diff: Sprint's service combines their 3G with Clear's 4G on the same card, so you can travel around to states without 4G, and still have connectivity with your laptop, running at 3G. And, you get to pay more, for it, as a result.
http://is.gd/1Yt0r the U300 modem. I dont know anything about it..Except that its 3g/4g capable, and has been out for several months.
Oh thats right only roll out in the big cites, screw rural America! Thats ok I get 20 mps with comcast anyway.
They've got to establish an install base where the can get enough revenue to justify.
Or, you could reference my post below:
Salem, NC??? Google that and tell me it makes sense.
Why no Phoenix :(
west texas is like the smallest town around here, the best thing that they have is the Czech stop bakery,
Not like I plan on switching to sprint or anything but I laughed when I saw west Texas but no Houston, 4th largest city in the nation gets no love from Sprint?! Would really consider if we could get a pre with wimax going.
I am saddened that Houston gets no love until next year. I wonder what the pricing is for WiMAX.
Um... Salem, NC? Really?
I have a feeling they are referring to Winston Salem as thats a pretty large city in NC, I mean if they are pulling in Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro it would only make since for it to be Winston Salem as its on the cusp of those areas
WTF. they never bring any out in the good areas.
come on, what about small town north east,
burrillville can whip millidgeville any old day.
well if it's a rural place it makes sense since they have a few options of isp
why is sprint even doing wimax when the rest of the world is doing lte? they are completing ostracizing themselves from the rest of the telco industry.
We've had WiMax here Hailey, Idaho for around two years if I remember correctly. They call it BridgeMaxx. For the most part it's reliable. The units sometimes disconnect from the towers without any reason. I hate how it caps at 2 megabits/sec
download, with 768kilobits upload. I suppose it has the capabilty to be faster. They do have one faster option that caps at 3mb down and 1mb upload but it needs at external antenna mounted on the side of your building.
AT&T needs to get with this...
There is no Boise, IA ....
That would suck if there was... I've been waiting in Boise IDAHO forever!!!
...And it's available aready! Stores have been transistioned from Clearwire (old service) to Clear (WiMAX services)! My question, however, is how good it truly is... guess I'm headed to the Clear store tomorrow!
My guess would be that they're doing that because those areas don't have High-Speed internet coverage yet, I have a friend down in NC that always complains about only being able to get Dial-up access. Then, enter Sprint, set up a couple towers here and there and bam! 4G high-speed internet for relatively large areas. Then, since there isn't any land-based competition to compete against, they have a very good chance of getting users to pay for the service. Versus, say, DC, where they would have to compete with Verizon (DSL and FiOS), Comcast (cable), and probably a handful of other companies I don't know about ^_^
Just my 2 cents.
Tripp
i'm hoping that by salem they mean winston-salem. that's where i live!
I scond the dc, baltimore is out of my range
I'm guessing that's Winston-Salem, NC. About 500,000 more people than Salem, NC. Just a guess.
Boise, IA before Orlando, FL ? What is this?
Boise,IA before Orlando,FL before Miami,FL what is this?²
All of that before New York City ?
There is no such thing as Boise IA, but Boise, ID already has it.
And the reason for the 250,000-people-filled Boise-area (Boise, Middleton, Nampa, Meridian, Kuna, etc.) getting WiMAX (called "Clear" in Boise) so soon is best described by "cocoviper" below, but I'll just describe it for you in my words.
Boise is pretty ideal for WiMAX rollout becuase it would be a lot easier to cover. It is relatively flat (until you get out ot the foothills), thus making line of sight issues less problematic. Also, it's a smaller area, so that means less cell towers to convert, less demand to handle, and it also makes it a pretty good test area. This is probably why Boise was one of the to receive Clearwire, as well.
And as much as I hated clearwire for their slow speeds, I think I might need to give this a whirl.
@MastrCake: Yes, there is a Boise, Iowa. They recently celebrated the towns 100th Anniversary.
They mispelled Colorado as a bunch of other states.
??? You mean, they mistook Boise, ID for Boise, IA?
We can't haz Denver?
"West Texas, Texas"
Does that mean the "West Texas" region of Texas? A quick Google search doesn't really reveal a city called that, just a little subspot in Dallas. Because there are quite a few cities in west Texas that already have Clearwire Wimax (Lubbock, Midland, Abilene, etc), so I don't know what that really means in terms of rebranding or what.