IT'S THE WiMAX COUNTDOWN!!!

[orangeblue]

I powered on right after Zero hour to check. At first I was slightly surprised to see it acquire signal!

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But since it has been furtively suggested in other places that the network would remain open to all, not just the non-profit accounts; I must dash those rumblings. It seems regular clearwire accounts are deauthorized. 

 

I am using a Clear Hub and a Clearspot and both are still working and speeds are fantastic at around 12MB down. I finally have my OWN tower LOL

 

 

Clearly its not over yet in Portland. My Clear hotspot is still working.

 

Orange County is still running too

 

 

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Apparently all of our devices have been shut off and all of our accounts have been closed says the fine print at the top of the page.

 

I guess they will keep the remaining accounts open or running until its over. Why do the work and sort through all the accounts that remain.

[S4GRU]

Clearwire sent a notice a long while ago saying that they would not institute new accounts nor reinstate old accounts. So existing good standing accounts still appear to be live. Others, not. I'm driving past my Protection Site in a few minutes to check it out.

 

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[signalchaser]

I will check the signal in town over the next few days and see if it is still up in Manchester.

[billwoodly]

Clearwire sent a notice a long while ago saying that they would not institute new accounts nor reinstate old accounts. So existing good standing accounts still appear to be live. Others, not. I'm driving past my Protection Site in a few minutes to check it out.

 

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I'm seeing that as well now.

 

My billing date was today so it sent me to the login page & then to the payment page.

 

Based on dedub's experience, I won't be making a payment.

 

My Freedompop Hub still works fine.

 

So i guess non-MB/MC accounts are good until their next payment date?

Edited November 6, 2015 by billwoodly

[S4GRU]

 

 

I'm driving past my Protection Site in a few minutes to check it out.

 

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Still alive and kicking at the Rapid City, South Dakota WiMAX protection site!

 

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[jefbal99]

What is the prevailing opinion of the ultimate solution?  Will Sprint raise the 6GB cap that they offered?  What is considered reasonable from each side?  10GB, 15GB?  I really like the suggestions from earlier in the thread, let the MC/MB users have B41 LTE access with a throttled cap of 10mb/s (very similar to the top end they could have previously acquired) and but a throttling cap on it once they reach the top 5% of usage, then they get throttled further.

 

Sprint's new network is very good, however, I'm not sure on a loaded B41 carrier that they would be able to reach a constant/continuous 10mb/s during peak hours, unless they were on a very underutilized site.

 

If Sprint can show they are offering service that is greater than previous i.e same max data speed, more coverage (B41LTE has significantly more sites than Clear) and they cap them similar to a Sprint customer for the data usage, how is this not enough to get the injunction lifted?

[jefbal99]

 

Still alive and kicking at the Rapid City, South Dakota WiMAX protection site!

 

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Bandwidth 0Mhz?  Shouldn't that be 10Mhz?

[kineticman]

 

Still alive and kicking at the Rapid City, South Dakota WiMAX protection site!

 

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You have the hands of George Costanza..  Are you a hand model?  

 

 

[dedub]

The towers and network are still obviously up, however now my clear spot is redirecting to home.clear (no internet) so I would guess it is just a matter of time before anyone else with still active service will get shut down.

 

It is my opinion that was probably the plan all along, I don't think we were going to see all the towers just drop at midnight, just the service, regardless of the lawsuit.

 

clear devices will continue to be able to connect to the towers, then get redirected to the clear captive portal which redirect the browser to your clear account page.

 

I'm sure sooner or later the towers will be disabled though (depending how the lawsuit goes), it's just a matter of time.

[orangeblue]

What is the prevailing opinion of the ultimate solution?  Will Sprint raise the 6GB cap that they offered?  What is considered reasonable from each side?  10GB, 15GB?  I really like the suggestions from earlier in the thread, let the MC/MB users have B41 LTE access with a throttled cap of 10mb/s (very similar to the top end they could have previously acquired) and but a throttling cap on it once they reach the top 5% of usage, then they get throttled further.

 

Sprint's new network is very good, however, I'm not sure on a loaded B41 carrier that they would be able to reach a constant/continuous 10mb/s during peak hours, unless they were on a very underutilized site.

 

If Sprint can show they are offering service that is greater than previous i.e same max data speed, more coverage (B41LTE has significantly more sites than Clear) and they cap them similar to a Sprint customer for the data usage, how is this not enough to get the injunction lifted

 

Regardless what the outcome will be, Sprint lost again because they get the bad press. Not really something you need if you're in a turn-around situation. Why would people believe you have such a great network with more capacity as all the other carriers when you cut off school for using the network? I'm sure Sprint could provide unlimited service with caps, because you don't need 60MB down for Google or do your homework. 10MB work just fine and that was what Clearwire offered at best (although I am still running 12MB down on my Clear Hub this morning). Give them unlimited, cap the speed to what Clear offered and show that your network can handle the traffic. In addition just allow B41 traffic and no access to B25/26 because these bands are not part of the EBS spectrum. 

[JThorson]

[orangeblue]

My Clear service went finally offline at 10:51 AM PST.

 

 

RIP

[markjcc]

Is Sprint able to fight off the injunction so that they'll be able to shutdown WiMax completely in markets where Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen don't even serve?

[grapkoski]

My Clear service went finally offline at 10:51 AM PST.

 

 

RIP

 

I wonder if that was the plan or if their legal team was comfortable enough to let them shutdown certain markets.

[markjcc]

I wonder if that was the plan or if their legal team was comfortable enough to let them shutdown certain markets.

WiMax still online for me

[dkyeager]

Our old wimax phones can be cantankerous. Remember to have Wi-Fi off and reboot and try again before saying it is dead.

 

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[markjcc]

Here's to hoping this will get resolved within the 90 days and not the full 90 days

[orangeblue]

WiMax still online for me

 

My FreedomPOP Hotspot is still running just fine and I will check if they still receive usage updates.

[jamesinclair]

I love how everybody here is booting up their Wimax devices.

 

Next press release: "WiMax usage up 765% in November from October!"

[Mr.Nuke]

Regardless what the outcome will be, Sprint lost again because they get the bad press. Not really something you need if you're in a turn-around situation.

Outside of a few cities and tech blogs this isn't really getting coverage anywhere.

[Substantive]

After that brief reprieve in the early AM, I'm no longer being allowed to resolve any sites, although the WiMax connection is still fine. End of the road for Clear users?

[grapkoski]

After that brief reprieve in the early AM, I'm no longer being allowed to resolve any sites, although the WiMax connection is still fine. End of the road for Clear users?

 

Sounds kind of like when iDen was shutdown. Services stopped working and eventually towers powered down. Weren't some a manual switch flip?

[blinky847]

I have a Clear account, of which my Mom uses - got the phone call from her a few hours ago, saying Internet is down as of a few hours before that. At least in the Chicago area (Glenview to be specific), WiMax is down.

[superbluepsd]

My Clear still working as if 3pm PST. 13mbps down. Fastest its been in a long time.

 

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[Kigen]

I am sad to see my EVO 3D can still connect to WiMAX.   I was really hoping they'd turn it off so that they could do Carrier Aggregation on LTE B41.