That text appears to have been removed at the time of publication. The complaint goes on to theorize why Clearwire would purposely mislead its customers, and the conclusion is that it wanted to grow its network "in the face of well-publicized financial pressure. That's where the supposed Ponzi scheme comes in.
The Plaintiffs accuse Clearwire of selling subscriptions it can't support in hopes of building out its network sometime in the future to "make good on its promises. As a result, Clearwire is accused of violating advertising and fair trade practices in six separate states with possibly more on the way, as the Plaintiffs are looking to get the suit elevated to class-action status.
The difference, however, is that Comcast was found to be specifically targeting Bittorrent when it began throttling back customers' connections, whereas Clearwire maintains that it is content- and application-neutral. That's largely within the FCC's latest net neutrality rules , though Clearwire has done a poor job of transparency. By comparison, Verizon also began throttling its wireless data connections this year, but made a point of offering specific details on the kinds of users and content that it targets, as well as what it does to "optimize" content flowing through its network.
Streaming video was pretty much unusable for a couple of months. Lately it's gotten better but I'm hoping I didn't just catch it on a less busy night. At the same time, I really want a certain amount of bandwidth.
It doesn't matter how cheap it is if it's not enough to handle what I want to do. I'm holding off until this summer when our DirecTV contract is up. That's when I'm cutting the cord and will really need a reliable ISP. I have Clear and I'm fairly happy with it, but I do have issues which may very well be related to this. In terms of checking email and surfing around the Chicago area, Clear has been great.
We can use it on the train, on the bus, in the car, and it usually just works and is fast enough. Sure, there are areas where coverage isn't that great and it cuts out, but that's to be expected.
What it's not good at is watching YouTube or any other type of online video. The throughput is way too variable, and goes from not great to sucky very fast and makes watching a HD Vudu or HD YouTube video on your big TV at home a near impossibility. DSL may not be that fast, but the consistency is becoming more and more important. I used to work for Clearwire in Nevada.
Not only did they block certain ports try using a VoIP program but they regularly throttled customers, and I helped with that. One of my responsibilities was to check individual data usage in our market and, if I saw someone using over a certain limit, I throttled them down to kbps. I can't remember what the limit was, unfortunately, but it was pretty low.
In addition, the termination fee system was a total racket. So what if, per Clearwire's terms, a customer is eligible for a waiver? He'd deny it anyway. For example, we had a customer who was pretty close to the edge of the coverage area, but he'd had decent service for several months. Then, because that area didn't get the subscribers Clearwire was hoping for, the tower that serviced that area was reduced from three to two transceivers.
This particular customer was no longer able to receive a signal. Myself and another technician went to his location and confirmed that there was no signal, and requested an ETF waiver. I've never worked for a business where a dissatisfied customer put on an A-frame sign saying something like "This business sucks! Thanks to Clearwire, I got to witness that twice in six months. Needless to say, I don't work for those bastards anymore. GCI here in Alaska does this.
Advertises unlimited, no throttling, then throttles down to dialup speeds, 22MB my arse. ACS used to do that here but they are not a broadband provider, only 3MB down , but they wised up when they realized they violated laws Looks like the company in this article have no clue I just don't really have anyone less crappy to go to if I leave. With Comcast I can deal with the same company who screwed up my billing multiple times and a year after canceling, sent collectors after me claiming I never returned a set-top-box seriously why would I still have the receipt a year later?
The only reason I am dealing with Clear still is because I seriously want some competition. Looking at speedtest. As follows, the bandwidth I can expect averages based on speedtest results : Comcast - 3. I know for certain that I've seen much higher speeds on all of these but it's telling that the choices are so poor. Considering the relatively low cost of putting up Wimax towers, I would really like to see this take off.
They just need enough buy in and investment to do it in a less shitty way. I've always thought Clear was fishy. I called them once to ask about their services, and the person I spoke to was just a real scumbag, huckster sounding person.
I had a bad feeling about them and just stayed away. Not unlike how I signed up for Netflix even though the Blockbuster deal sounded better. Just didn't smell right. A good friend of mine got clear middle of last year. He got the mobile spot, and the home connection, and the phone service. The EFForums track www. We were on the 41st floor of the Marriott and get great signal even in the corridor, where I was on my laptop at 4 in the morning, so I wouldn't disturb those asleep About months ago, they noticed their home connection was being throttled.
They're not heavy torrenters, mostly the connection is used for xbox live, browser games by the wife, and for the husband to log into work when he had to fix something he's a systems admin for a water company.
It wasn't signal, because if they fired up the spot, they got great speeds, but their home modem would crawl, and they live atop a mountain in Metro Atlanta, with a clear tower in easy line-of-sight.
In the end, last month they went with u-verse. Clear though, is spending money hand-over-fist. There's a clear 'section' inside Microcenter Marietta. Almost directly across the road, is a clear 'store'. At the cobb place mall, a few miles away, there's a clear stall, which had three guys promoting their 'green tie special' There's almost as many clear stands in that area as Verizon, and Verizon has a more widespread product, with more actual products, and a history of profitability, and around M devices to support.
If clear is even available to M people, I'd be very surprised. ACS used to do that here but they are not a broadband provider, only 3MB down , but they wised up when they realized they violated laws ; Looks like the company in this article have no clue All the sales people I talked to tried to urge me into the contract to save a few bucks here and there, which gave me an even worse fishy feeling about signing anything.
I plugged it in and it worked great, though the lag was meh in online games. I learned quickly you don't try to use it for more than one thing at once, i. Eventually my speeds got worse and worse, to the point where I couldn't actually use the connection for anything. Every time I'd have problems, I'd call Clear and complain, they'd have me move things around and do some snakeoil troubleshooting, but it never got better.
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