Clear Internet Service you get wireless internet speeds as fast as you would get with a home DSL or cable broadband connection.

Five reasons why you must choose Clear as your internet provider:

faster, affordable (home internet pay $30/month), convenient, easy and uses the latest technology. Clear internet encompass many regions, you can check the availability of you area.

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For these and many other customers, CLEAR's simple and innovative pricing provides ultimate flexibility. CLEAR's mobile and residential plans can be purchased by the day or by the month, with several no-service-contract options available. Home Internet service plans start at $30 (USD) per month. Regular mobile Internet plans start at $35 per month, or, for a limited time, customers can take advantage of CLEAR's mobile Internet promotion with plans starting at $40 per month for customers that sign-up for service online at www.clear.com. Customers can also purchase a convenient day pass for $10.

Additional savings are available for customers by purchasing a combination of services that could include home-and-mobile or mobile-and-mobile Internet plans starting at $55 for both, or by signing up for a two-year service agreement. The dual-mode 4G/3G plan is available for just $70 per month with a two-year service agreement. Customers can find full details about pricing options, business plans and purchasing the service online at www.clear.com, or by visiting other authorized CLEAR dealers or contact clearwire sales consultant Bobby Glover at bobbyglover4gWiMAX@clear.net.

CLEAR service is available online at Clear.com and beginning today at CLEAR retail stores and authorized dealer locations throughout the area. CLEAR retail locations are located on the island of Oahu at Windward Mall, Pearlridge Mall, Ala Moana Mall, Kahala Mall and on Keeaumoku St. Retail locations on the island of Maui are located at Queen Kaahumanu Mall and on Dairy Road.

Simply Plug-In and Go CLEAR offers several simple choices for broadband connectivity.

Clear USB Modem and Clear 4G+ Mobile: Mobile users simply plug-in CLEAR's compact, mobile WiMAX-enabled USB modem into their laptop to get online. From Motorola, the USB modem is available for only $49.99 or leased for just $4.99 per month. Customers can purchase the modem from a store or online. Customers who travel across the U.S. may purchase the Clear 4G+ mobile USB, a dual-mode (4G/3G) modem from CLEAR. The dual-mode capabilities give the truly mobile user access to nationwide 3G network service whenever the Clear 4G service is not available. The 4G+ mobile USB is available to lease for only $5.99 per month.

Residential Data & Voice Services:

For residential service, CLEAR offers customers a wireless high-speed modem, about the size of a small book. Customers simply plug the modem into a power outlet anywhere in their home or office and connect the modem to their PC or wireless router. This enables consumers and businesses to install high-speed Internet service without the need to schedule an appointment, drill holes in their walls, or otherwise disrupt their day. The Clear Modem, a residential modem from Motorola, can be purchased for $69.99 or leased for just $4.99 monthly. Residential customers can also add in-home voice service with purchase of the Clear Voice Adapter for $15, and receive unlimited local and long distance service for just $25 per month.

Clearwire 4G Markets in 2009 Clearwire's 4G network will expand to numerous markets around the country, and services will be offered by different service providers depending on the market. By the end of 2009, Clearwire's 4G network is expected to be available in more than 25 markets covering over 30 million people in places such as: Atlanta and Milledgeville, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boise, ID; Chicago, IL; Las Vegas, NV; Philadelphia, PA; Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro, NC; Honolulu and Maui, HI; Seattle and Bellingham, WA; Portland, OR; and Dallas/Ft. Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls, TX.

I did a little bit of research before laying my hands on Clearwire’s USB Modem for mobile internet. AT&T had no unlimited plans for data transfer and after using its services on iPhone there was no way in the hell I would have gone with it.

Though Sprint and Clear are sharing the same 4G network to offer internet on the go, the plans and packages they offer are very different.

Sprint does not sell without a 2 year contract, Clear does. Sprint’s 4G plans start from $49.99 a month and have a 5GB cap on the data transfer and the “unlimited” plan is priced at $69.99 a month.

Unlimited plan from Clear is priced at $30 for the first 6 months and $45 after that. Internet speed remains between 3mbps to 6mbps.

Also, you can either choose to pay around $50 and buy the USB modem or pay $5 each month for upto 2 years. Dont worry, this isn’t a contract you can buy the modem anytime you like to even before the two year period ends. Clearly, clear was a better choice for me.

Take a look at the Clear Modem Unboxing video before we dive into the performance details of the service.

I am pretty satisfied with the service and I am hoping it will remain the same as more and more users hook on to the network but even if it does not it will take quite some time for the network to be overloaded or cloged.

Again, I have no issues with the service so far and I love the speed.

I am travelling to Las Vegas early tomorrow morning to cover CES 2010. I plan to put Clearwire to test buy uploading videos from the event. If it does well there then there is no reason why you guys should go for another service.

Ill update this post once I am back from the event.

Abbas January 5, 2010

I've had a vexing problem, until it was fortuitously resolved, a few days ago.

The situation:

I had promised Pono and Aunty Mattie that I'd be spending more time with them at their home in Waiohuli, upcountry, during my time back in Maui; it was actually Pono who suggested sometime last summer, that I spend a week at a time with him at his house, alternating between there and my home in Wailuku. That seems only reasonable, given how truly parent/child our relationship has evolved into. It's not a legal thing, to be sure, as legal adoption or guardianship isn't involved; but it might as well be, given the Hawaiian tradition of hanai.

More importantly, it's the practical reality of the relationship that makes it very clear to me (and to anyone else who sees it), that I am in fact in a parenting situation right now, with my godson. Thus, spending more time with him, nurturing, and just being-with, is the sine qua non of it.

And as it now happens, I'll be actually spending more time at Pono's home upcountry (Wed. evening through Sun. afternoon) than at mine in Wailuku.

The problem:

Currently, there is no local telecom or ISP offering high-speed access to the internet, up at Waiohuli. There are a couple of reasons for this: (a) the Hawaiian Homelands resettlement area is brand new, and so the infrastructure isn't ready yet; (b) it's 'only' a state/public development--I can easily imagine that if it were a wealthy, private development, building the telecom infrastructure in the area would proceed with more alacrity. I mean, there already are phone landlines available, so why isn't it easier for the local telecoms to provide cable/DSL access? Part of me says, "Because it's just those Hawaiian Homelands folks, they don't need the same amenities as the rest of us." (Clue: Verizon/Hawaiian Tel, the large telecom serving the islands, isn't available there; instead, Homelands residents have had to make do with a small, struggling local telecom, Sandwich Isles Communications.)

Given the nature of my telecommuting work for the UC Berkeley ATDP, a lack of fast online access upcountry, where I'll be spending a significant amount of my time here, is most definitely a problem; while at Aunty Mattie's house, I've had to make do with dial-up access via her AOL account, which while it gets my work done in a barebones fashion, is just way too slow for comfort. I just cannot access my ATDP servers with any reasonable throughput, using a 57-baud modem.

The resolution:

So anyway, last Friday around noon, Pono and I were walking around the neighborhood when we spotted this colorful car cruising slowly downhill, stopping at people's houses along the way. It was one of those cars (a Murano semi-SUV in this case) which entire body is covered with a brightly colored decal, an ad or company logo; this one was in bright chartreuse and seablue, with large text angled on its side.

As we walked uphill and got closer, we could read the car's logo: clearwire | wireless broadband. To Pono's surprise, I suddenly started jogging towards it, my excitement building with each step; he followed me, laughing along. The woman driving it had just walked back from a house whose inhabitants weren't home, and hopped back in. As she pulled out of the driveway and back onto the road, she saw us running towards her, and slowed down, waving.

When we reached the car, before she could say anything, I breathlessly (and perhaps a little too expectantly) asked her, "Aloha, cuz! What's up? You selling something I might like?" And she said, "Good morning, cuz! Yeah. We're doing a promo." (I did the local lingo as soon as I saw the dudette was a local girl ::chuckle::)

And that's how my upcountry connectivity problem came to be, serendipitously, resolved, at noon on Friday, the 11th of November, 2005.

Pono and I hopped into her car and she drove us back home, to set us up with her company's promo; her name was Melissa, and she was a godsend. Okay, well maybe not God, but definitely a Craigsend ::chuckle:: (For Clearwire is a recent nationwide launch of wireless broadband access from two industry titans, Craig McCaw of legendary McCaw Cellular, whose latest foray is as CEO of Clearwire, and Craig Barrett, current CEO of Intel Corp.; odd coincidence, in those names.)

When we got home, in literally just a few minutes, I was online with high speed wireless internet access! The promo included free setup of the (free) wireless modem, and the signal from the tower way down the coast in Kihei, was extremely strong (it lit up the max available five little green lights on the device). I hooked up my Powerbook to the modem with an ethernet cable, and IP connectivity was automatic, with DHCP. It took longer to set up the actual Clearwire account, via their website, than to get the wifi working. I instantly loved the seamless plug-and-play aspect of the thing.

http://virtualatdp.berkeley.edu/lrn/random/workspace112005.jpg

After the hassle of working with the somewhat befuddled folks at Sandwich Isles and the Pixienet ISP, and being shocked at the monthly payments I'd have to spend (going through their not-quite-ready DSL services, in addition to the Verizon DSL I'd be paying downcountry in Wailuku, would have cost me almost $100 a month), the instantaneous setup with Clearwire felt extraordinary. And the promo included free service for the first 2 months, and thereafter just $36.99/mo. Definitely a better deal than the 2 ISP setup I had planned, with Verizon DSL in Wailuku and Pixienet DSL in Waiohuli, totalling almost $100/mo.

Perhaps the best thing about the Clearwire wifi modem is that it's portable--I can just plug it into any power outlet anywhere and, within the coverage area of any of their local towers, I can get a signal. Wailuku town (where I live) is covered, as are Lahaina and Kihei. Melissa said that Clearwire was building a tower upcountry in Kula, and another one down in Paia; so, basically, Maui will be blanketed with its signal, and very soon. (Clearwire's foray into the Hawaiian broadband wifi and wireless space is beginning with Maui, and not Oahu/Honolulu; how lucky for me! After some online research, and via its website, I can see that Clearwire is targeting less competitive markets first; the big urban areas are probably rife with heavy competition from the other big guns in the telecom industry. Is Clearwire in your area yet?)

Today, I'm back home in Wailuku, and also getting a strong signal from the Clearwire base tower in town (interestingly, the signal is stronger when it's overcast; I guess it bounces down better from cloud cover?). Below is a pic of my workspace, and a pic of the actual book-sized modem above, rather inelegantly propped by the screened window. I'm hoping that, when Apple's Intel-powered laptops come about, in a year or so (right, Bigi?), the modem will be even smaller, and perhaps built in to the laptop itself. That will be very cool, with no wires or cables strewn about, as they are at the moment.

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