I am excited that CLEAR high-speed wireless internet service is available in the Washington, DC area as of June 1. I’ve been anxiously awaiting its arrival since attending the Baltimore launch event more than a year and a half ago. CLEAR is a wireless internet service that boasts speeds up to four times as fast [...]

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I was able to attend XOHM’s WiMAX launch event in Baltimore yesterday.  The event started with an ethernet cord cutting ceremony (I missed that) followed by a presentation by Barry West XOHM Sprint Nextel, Sean Maloney of Intel Corporation and Dan Hesse of Sprint Nextel. There were a number of demos including the On the [...]

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XOHM has installed the first WiMAX network in a major city in the United States – too bad it’s in Baltimore instead of Washington, DC where I am. WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) refers to a standard designed to provide high-bandwidth wireless services on a metropolitan scale – think public WiFi on steriods.  Reportedly, [...]

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