CLEAR launch in SF Bay Area sometime in 2010

The San Francisco Bay Area will have to wait until sometime next year to receive Clearwire's WiMAX service, according to CEO Bill Morrow, who declined to issue a time frame for its debut. After deploying to the cities that pass about 120 million potential customers,

Clearwire will turn to a more "surgical" strategy. The company hopes this will allow it to remain ahead of its competitors — primarily Verizon Wireless, which is launching its LTE-based FIXED (not mobile) wireless network in late 2010. Clearwire’s network deployment has made investors optimistic about the company’s future. Despite the economic gloom and doom, they are meeting their roll out schedule this year for CLEAR, while Comcast and TWC are reselling the service in selected markets.

Source: The New York Times/GigaOm

http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/08/09/09gigaom-san-francisco-to-get-clearwire-wimax-in-2010-41703.html

Here is a related article I wrote about the expected Clearwire Launch in Silicon Valley- also see comments at end of article:

http://www.wimax.com/commentary/blog/blog-2009/april-2009/Commercial-WiMAX-Network-Planned-for-Silicon-Valley-0410

What do you think about the comment at the end:

Fixed WiMax for $30
Posted by Ronen Vainish at 2009-06-08 01:53 PM
Keep dreaming, but the numbers don't add up. The spectral cost is too high and the scalability of WiMax is very poor (you can't put too many base stations in residential area because nobody will agree to that). At the end of the day cable/DSL will always win in urban areas.
WiMax can only be cost effective for cellular services that pay $100/month for very little b/w consumption