Best Buy to start offering 4g Clearwire plans!

ap3604 · 08:33 AM

Best Buy to start offering 4g Clearwire plans!

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/...d-wimax-plans/

For those of you who don't want to pay Sprint's ridiculous $80/mo, hope is on the way soon!!! Best buy 4g plans for $40/mo where you could simply use the 4g connection on your unlocked Evo 4g to make your calls over VOIP? Not having to pay an imaginary $10 fee just to line Sprint's executives pockets? Mmmmmmmmmmm

It would be simply AMAZING if more retailers like Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc started offering wireless Clearwire plans since this would absolutely cripple the big 4's monopoly prices and open up the smartphone world to everyone... not just the rich yuppies that don't mind being bent over paying $80/mo

drmacinyasha · 30th July 2010, 08:47 AM

Good luck using 4G in a non-4G market, on the road, or indoors.

cosine83 · 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by drmacinyasha

Good luck using 4G in a non-4G market, on the road, or indoors.

Good luck using Clear, regardless. It's still a very new technology in the terms of using it in a WAN scenario and, as a former Clear customer, it's very shaky at best. Their WiMax modems are meh and the signal really sucks. It's also subject to adverse weather conditions (high winds in Las Vegas). The biggest problem I see is that their modems (I don't know about the Evo) seem to not connect to the closest or strongest signal, they just up and connect to whatever is available willy nilly and can generate connectivity issues due to that. When I had it, I also had issues when connecting network devices (router, switch, hub, anything) to the modem - as in high latency across the network and getting out but when connecting directly to the modem with my laptop I would have a perfect connection. Unless Clear has really changed in the last 6 months, they're really not that great for the services they tout in their commercials - VoIP, Skype/video chat, HD video streaming, fast browsing, and fast downloads.

Oh, I forgot their NIGHTLY maintenance. Yes, nightly. Your connection will 100% die at around 2-3am. I called them on this and they said it was just antenna updates and should only happen once a week but I was experiencing otherwise. If you go to dslreports.com and look up their reviews, they're typically negative ones.