Clearwire’s WiMax is a Go for Portland, OR

By on Jan 7, 2009 at 7:13 AM
General January 7, 2009

While’s the future of WiMax may still be a bit up in the air, Clearwire has gone ahead with its plans to launch the service in Portland, OR. Effective yesterday customers can purchase a variety of different usage plans to fit their needs provided, of course, that he/she happens to own a compatible WiMax device. If you’re one of the lucky few that owns a WiMax machine and lives in Oregon’s biggest city, you can experience the joy of 4G wireless broadband at one of the following price points:

  • $10 for a 24-hour pass
  • $30 a month for 200MB of data
  • $40 a month for 2GB
  • $50 a month for unlimited data

That’s not at all bad, considering comparable 3G offerings from the major wireless carriers, though the general dirth of devices doesn’t make it terribly appealing for anyone outside of a select few. That said, if these prices hold and the service proliferates a bit faster we might see manufacturers pick up the pace of WiMax integration into new devices.

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  • http://www.deafmac.org Deaf

    Portland? Bring WiMax over to Minneapolis/Saint Paul and I guarantee that it’ll be a success here!

  • BoogerEater

    Is the unlimited plan truely unlimited? Or when someone hits 5gigs, then they start getting charged out the wazoo!?

  • veks

    Anyone know the launch date for LA, Ca?

  • Orga

    I guess I’ll be the nitpicky word whore and point out that word you were looking for is dearth, not dirth.

    Sorry.

  • Humdizzle

    What are the speeds like?

  • Don Louie

    Was that 17B not enough to make the other test cities live like L.A., NY and Chicago

  • nic

    Sprint is offering a 4G aircard now for 149.99. Clear is in cahoots with sprint so if you live in Portland, pick one up.

  • COCOViper

    They only got 3.5B in cash not 17B (~15B was the total of the contributed assets from all parties). Also Chicago will most likely not go live until later in 2009 due to iPCS legal issues.

    Las Vegas will most likely be the next big market followed by some combination of Wash DC, Atlanta, Grand Rapids, LA, NYC, Boston, and Philly. I wouldn’t be too surprised if Seattle hits in 2009 as well.

    http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=169886

  • Don Louie

    Damn IPCS, guess it makes since to hold off because of that.

  • andybo

    The original post was a little mis-leading, stating you need a Wi-Max compatible device in order to use this service. The internet access utilizes USB air cards that will hook-up any laptop or standard desktop computer. After some serious investigation in this company, and completely reading the huge company profile on Nasdaq.com, I too became an investor of this company as I think this is the future of internet service. Ya’ll sit back and wait if you don’t believe.

  • bonesb

    I’ll be trying it out in a couple of weeks, a couple of guys have been trying it out for a few weeks (they’ve had USB modems for a few weeks) and really like it.

    Those prices above are no-contract, AFAIK.

    Not to mix topics, but I was reading that Clear’s board was planning to consider “other technologies” for their future build out, that a commitment to WiMax wasn’t set. Maybe why there’s no more Nokia 810s – they’re being boxed up and shipped to Russia, where they have some WiMax? Smart. So’s no contract, in my book for now!

  • Gibralter

    I heard an ad for it on the radio yesterday

  • nwducati

    I’ve had service for one week, best result so far.

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/387453049.png

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