Clearwire Promises Expansions to Chicago, Vegas, and more

Maureen · Site Admin Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 200

At last, the news we've all been waiting for... official word from Clearwire on a build-out plan!

Clearwire announced today that they plan to launch Clear in the following 8 markets this year:

Atlanta
Las Vegas
Chicago
Charlotte
Dallas/Ft. Worth
Honolulu
Philadelphia
Seattle

And another 70 in 2010, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Houston and San Francisco.

Those are lofty goals - let's cross our fingers that they manage to pull it off before their money runs out.

sirwoogie · 4G User Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 33 Location: MI

Nothing for Southeast Michigan. Sad

wakeman91 · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:48 am Post subject:

You emphasize this year as though its something new. They've been saying Chicago would be launched "this year" since last September. And I've been dealing with its inconsistancy on transferring large files since January. All this despite the claims that Chicago is currently their biggest build-out.

I think Honolulu was the only news-worthy city on the list, speculations were already pretty high on NY and SF for 2010 since they need to hit a popluation milestone in order to fulfill the gov't mandate on the spectrum.

sirwoogie · 4G User Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 33 Location: MI

Jackofall · 4G User Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 80 Location: Maryland

Ok.. Let's forget about 2009.. Let's focus on next...Clear will stiill be ahead of VZW by Mid year... I believe they will be two steps ahead of the game for a few years... This is Clear's only focus.. VZW has a lot to deal with..

isamu · 4G User Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 53

Will Los Angeles customers fall under the Las Vegas service? Will it work in the Anaheim/Santa Ana area?

hw711 · 4G Fledgling Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 12

2009 is 1/4 over and they haven't launched in a single city yet. I don't know how they are on schedule for 8 cities.

DeltaSPARTAN003 · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject:

I really hope Seattle isn't delayed. I've been waiting 2 years! I switched to Sprint because of WiMax!

But, I reallly hope that New Clearwire doesn't frak this up. With Clearwire owning most of the 2.5 Ghz spectrum, there is no reason they could ever be able to falter.