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- DLit, on 01/04/2009, -3/+33YAA! CHICAGO! REPRESENT!
- FENWAYFREAK, on 01/04/2009, -0/+25It just hit me that later this year now means a time far away.
- stox, on 01/04/2009, -0/+25We were supposed to get WiMax in early 2008, then mid 2008, then late 2008, and now late 2009. For some reason, I am not going to hold my breath.
- SniperGX1, on 01/04/2009, -0/+17Any enemy of Comcast is a friend of mine
- gbinns, on 01/03/2009, -1/+17This would force AT&T and Comcast to become more competitive.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 01/04/2009, -0/+10WiMax? It's something we've been enjoying in Asia, especially in Taiwan, for well over a year now. Think WiFi except it has a much much longer range, and you're going at cable download speeds all over the city.
- cyclopssmiley, on 01/04/2009, -0/+8I live in Chicago now and Comcast is horrible. But you don't need to live here to know that ;)
- shoppingkart, on 01/04/2009, -0/+6Good going. Right now, I have WiMin.
- Gorzki, on 01/04/2009, -0/+6WiMax? Where the ***** is my FiOS!?
Comcast seriously must have some shady deal with Daley to keep other serious high speed competition out of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. FiOS is plentty of major cities and plentty of non-major ones too. Chicago? Nope.
/rant of a disgruntled Comcast(and whatever they were called before) customer of 8+ years. - ShrimpCrackers, on 01/04/2009, -1/+5Actually since you also need a big antenna for WiMax as well, there is currently no affordable home base stations that I know of. However, for corporations, unlike cellphone towers, each base only costs about or less than $100,000 and can extend for well over a few miles. In America apparently you need to pay a licensing fee among other things so its already out of reach for us normal folks. However a large company probably only needs a tiny handful of base staions to cover all Manhattan, making deployment much faster than traditional cellphone networks.
In a way its better to think of it as instead of being tethered to broadband over a cable, you're using this wireless "cable" instead. Some companies in Asia have taken to calling WiMax as part of "4G' though its not quite so.
Right now the handsets are pretty big, the size of the older palm trio's, but the dataplans are very attractive at about $20 USD/Mo in Taiwan. But then they overcharge for internet in the USA so the end cost for you will probably be much higher. - danwallace, on 01/05/2009, -0/+28mbps wireless is *****?
- darkamster07, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2im lucky enough to have RCN in chicago, and any further instanet competition is a plus for chicago IMO
- mcnees287, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2***** COMCAST.
- DeVayne, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2Chicagoland needs more competition because AT&T and Comcast have a strangle hold on the whole metropolitan area and they offer relatively poor speeds for high prices.
- Ryan_KW, on 01/04/2009, -1/+3Chi Town doesn't have WiMax? I live in a city of less than 100,000 in Northeastern Canada and I've had Wimax for well over a year now. For $5 more a month I'm practically on the network by myself and I get "actual" download speeds nearly twice as fast as my old, faster DSL line.
- spiker611, on 01/04/2009, -1/+3here in chi-town we have a monopolistic state / city (mayor) and total corporate control with at&t and comcast.
- Vhaeos, on 01/04/2009, -1/+3I forgive you.
- Bidofthis, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1ShrimpCrackers thanks for your reply. Most of these articles on WiMax are terribly written. I assume most folks have no idea of how wimax works and I bet some of these news reporters don't either.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Hopefully WiMax can start spreading faster in America, so we can catch up with Asia and the rest of the world in terms of bandwidth per capita. Even with WiMax we are behind and there are already deployed in cities in Asia, such as Taipei, Taiwan.
- kckinn, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2The real good part about WiMax is that there services are available even in those remote areas where the conventional fixed wire line operators dont operate. Speed is pretty much the same.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1"there" services?
- UselessTrivia, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Not with WiMax they won't....Sprint more or less owns the rights to WiMax in the US.
It's a great technology, but since we don't have carrier independent devices in the US like they have in Europe I fear it will be mostly a flop here. I would be very pleased to be wrong, though. I love the idea of having a data plan that works with all of my wimax enabled devices everywhere I go. - Zervaman, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2About DAMN time we started seeing the kind of high speed internet access that has been available in Asia for years...
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1Love how you were modded down by some coward who couldn't even come up with a retort.
- Brassbud, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1"here in chi-town we have a monopolistic state / city (king) and total corporate control with at&t and comcast."
There, I fixed that for you. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1That's because Daley is an ignorant backward-ass tool. He's also the guy who fought the smoking ban long after L.A., New York, London, and plenty of other major cities got tired of stinking like an ashtray. Oh, and he destroyed a valuable airport in the middle of the night, illegally, so he could replace it with a park named after his wife; this despite an offer to name the airport after his wife, and that there were no funds or plans to build the park after the airport was destroyed.
What a winner. - cbg78, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Did you read all of this? they gave a few more reasons too..
- m0n0kr0m3, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Google is investing $500 million; Intel, $1 billion. Comcast is investing $1.05 billion; Time Warner Cable, $550 million. Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners, headed by wireless pioneer John Stanton, are contributing $100 million and $10 million, respectively.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2008-05-07-c ... - Klowner, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Never heard that one before. WiMax deployment has been so vaporous, such articles mean very little to me.
- PixelD, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2"I was getting 5-megabit-plus download speeds on my laptop throughout Baltimore," said Jeff Thompson, president and chief executive of Towerstream, which offers a commercial WiMax network in Chicago.
hahaha I pretty much have to dry hump a tower to get those speeds. Not sure what part of Baltimore he was in. - toledojon, on 01/04/2009, -2/+3Wi-Max always seemed so good on paper, it's a shame it really isn't catching on.
- carlosos, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2There is already a good amount of WiMax. I would say that there is a little more WiMax than there is FIOS if I compare the maps from Verizon and Clearwire.
- spriggig, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2WiMax available in the Albuquerque area via AzulStar. They screwed up the municipal wifi in Rio Rancho so bad they lost the contract with the city and were forced to remove the hardware from the light poles. Now they're trying WiMax. They only needed two antennas to cover all of Rio Rancho, one of which is on top of Intel.
- snupples, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2cheTania, that whole post was a lot of *****. I struggled to read the whole thing just because I was curious where you would slip in a spam link. But you didn't. So now I'm confused.
- Klowner, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1I must be one of the few people to live in an area where WiMax has been "coming next month" for almost 2 years, various delays due to "technical" and "security" issues continue.
- issaccheriyathu, on 01/03/2009, -1/+2About time. Hope it comes around everywhere... Time Warner Sucks.
- person425, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1I'm using clear here in portland. ***** speeds for wimax (8mbps or so), but it's fun to play around with.
- linagee, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1Sounds like we need a foreign country to make a 100x cheaper knock-off of the $10,000 one.
- m0n0kr0m3, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1$3.2 billion
Clearwire was a really small company that received lots of venture capitol from the afore mentioned companies. I'm sure they have a lot of members in o=common on their boards of directors. I've only been able to confirm that they share a director with Intel though. - javin666, on 01/04/2009, -2/+2Someone still has to provide this service. The city should contract one of the carriers. Everyone has free internet, companies keep making money... win win
- themvcc, on 01/06/2009, -0/+080 Dollar a month is a bit steep
I think I will stick with my 35 dollar at&t service plan
Did a test and got these numbers
Download Speed: 4878 kbps (609.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 624 kbps (78 KB/sec transfer rate)
Its a big ripoff compare to what they have overseas - Bidofthis, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1so if you have wimax setup at home... could you galavant around town with a skype enabled wimax phone --- say within 5-10 miles of home base?
would be nice to get rid of the mobile phone provider --- but then again Sprint *is* a mobile phone provider.
How much this gonna cost? - oboshoe, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1I wonder how much AT&T and Comcast donated to Blago for the right of ways and licenses to do this
- cdawzrd, on 01/04/2009, -2/+2WiMax is slow. I had it to my house for a year and a half. Good download speeds, comparable to slow DSL, but horrible latency makes it impossible to play games or use Skype. I hope the technology they use in Chicago is better.
- daviddiaz, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1Amen.
- exp1oit, on 01/04/2009, -0/+0Portland prices right now are $40 for 6 megs. Check the Clearwire site.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -1/+1The government does protect the rights for only certain ISPs to operate in a particular area. I can't get FiOs because I live in a county that only allows Time Warner and AT&T to operate in, I have neighbors who live in the bordering county who have really fast internet while I'm stuck with throttled garbage.
- brandoncwilson, on 01/05/2009, -0/+0I would post a positive, atta-boy type, response to this comment, but I am afraid that the net-spies at Comunistcast will intercept my comments and make all of my TV channels show Barney reruns as punishment!
- tweekerzs, on 01/06/2009, -0/+0wimax will be available thru telecom phone services a very reasonable price they have no credit check or monthly contracts when its live i believe it will be for the wimax phone 30 dollars a month unlimited internet and phone calls the nokia phone witch i have held and used u can google shop wimax phone its a slider and touch screen with video chat capable very cool stuff
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