After launching its WiMAX service in Portland, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Baltimore, Clearwire is extending its commercial WiMAX service to 10 more cities.
Come September 1, Clearwire will be available in Texan cities: Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen-Temple, Lubbock, Midland-Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls. The other two cities are Bellingham, Washington and Boise, Idaho. This launch will allow the company to further its plans of reaching 120 million Clear brand customers by the end of 2010.
Service plans will be offered for a fixed location and on the go with speeds of 3Mbps to 6Mbps. Fixed plans will run subscribers $20 a month, while mobile plans will cost $30.
Three Clearwire investors, all cable operators, will resell the service to their fixed-line broadband plans as a wireless component. Comcast already offers this type of service in Portland.
Clearwire’s current competition take the form of cable, DSL and 3G mobile services. While there are several WiMAX-enabled laptops and netbooks out there, Clearwire only offers the Samsung Mondi MID. They also just launched the Clear 4G+ Modem, a USB dongle, on August 1. This USB dongle allows users to utilize Clearwire’s WiMAX service where available and Sprint Nextel’s 3G mobile data service elsewhere.
And now for a commercial:
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