New 3.5Ghz Operator Launch Imminent - Clearwire

spongebob

Clearwire have finally locked and loaded their website with information. They have more or less the same key licence areas as Leap and IBB and must launch by end Feb or lose their spectrum. I heard its next week or the week after. Service areas are.

"Athlone, Carlow, Clonmel, Drogheda,Dublin,
Dundalk, Galway , Kilkenny, Mullingar, Naas,
Navan Town, Newbridge, Waterford, Wexford"

Clearwire recently bought the original licencee Net2Cell .

Clearwire will probably use NextNet kit as they OWN Nextnet. The kit may be Wimax compatible from the off (or become so later this year with a small software upgrade only) . The most interesting bit is that the CPE is Wireless , just like Ripwave . The recent 'changes' in service areas on the IBB site may have come about as a condition of their 3.5Ghz licence . 3.5Ghz licencees are obliged to publish accurate maps (except for Eircom) and some cheeky person apparently called in Comreg on their heads forcing IBB to do so .

See The Tech Here

http://www.nextnetwireless.com/products.asp

Clearwire Price will be Max €37.50 per month for 512/128 25:1 8Gb cap .

http://www.clearwire.ie/service/tariffs.html

They have published the conditions that Got them the licence in the first place

"Commitment regarding Residential service and maximum tariff offerings:


The Licensee shall make available on request to all of its customers within coverage an unbundled and stand-alone fixed wireless access service having the following attributes:

Nominal data transmission rate, network to subscriber : 512 kbit/s

Nominal data transmission rate, subscriber to network: 128 kbit/s

Maximum contention ratio: 25:1

Inclusive data allowance in monthly tariff: 8 GByte / month
The Licensee shall make such a service available at a maximum tariff not exceeding €37.50 per month, excluding VAT but including all hidden charges, installation charge and equipment rental.

Commitment regarding Business service and maximum tariff offerings:


The Licensee shall make available on request to all of its customers within coverage an unbundled and stand-alone fixed wireless access service having the following attributes:

Nominal data transmission rate, network to subscriber : 512 kbit/s

Nominal data transmission rate, subscriber to network: 128 kbit/s

Maximum contention ratio: 20:1

Unlimited data transmission
The Licensee shall make such a service available at a maximum tariff not exceeding €45.56 per month, excluding VAT but including all hidden charges, installation charges and equipment rental."

Clearwire is mainly owned by Charles McCaw who is to Wireless in the US what John Malone is to Cable and Murdoch to TV ...........IE HUGE

Chorus are supposed to launch in Dublin by end Feb too and a carrier called Budget IIRC in the other main towns. Ye Dubs will grow to love Chorus ....take my word for it

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SkepticOne

alkjdflkajf wrote:

Clearwire Price will be Max €37.50 per month for 512/128 25:1 8Gb cap .

http://www.clearwire.ie/service/tariffs.html

They have published the conditions that Got them the licence in the first place

They will probably need to bring down the price a bit to compete with the likes of UTV and NTL. The cap is probably a good idea in the Irish market if they don't want to end up with a slow service though I think it is a little low for a 25:1 contention ratio.

Slutmonkey57b

Trust an Irish supplier to have coverage maps of BRUSSELS on their site.

Note to engineering staff: Athlone does not have LOS to Brussels. "England", a large landmass off to the "right" of Athlone is, to use the technical term, "In the way a bit".

Jammer

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Trust an Irish supplier to have coverage maps of BRUSSELS on their site.

Note to engineering staff: Athlone does not have LOS to Brussels. "England", a large landmass off to the "right" of Athlone is, to use the technical term, "In the way a bit".

hahahaha....brilliant

Cionn

I rang them up to ask what their coverage was going to be and I was emailed telling me to contact them again in June, maybe it's another version of Irish Broadband, promise lots deliver little to nothing.

Cionn