Sidecut Reports

Cool kids at Stanford, the Googlers and folks at Cisco will be the first in the Bay area to get a taste of Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX wireless services, courtesy of the testbed network that was launched today. Some more thoughts on this later, but in the meantime Om has a good take on the importance of putting the service in the hands of innovators.

How to get service? From the press release:

To access the network, developers can purchase a Clearwire WiMAX USB modem for $49.99. Developer-owned, CLEAR network-ready WiMAX devices, such as the Samsung Mondi and WiMAX-embedded Intel-based PC’s, are also eligible for the program. To qualify, developers must register for Clearwire’s developer program and describe the WiMAX development ideas they wish to pursue. Interested developers can sign-up at http://developer.clear.com/innovation. The developers’ website will also include coverage maps and suggested drive routes for mobile application testing.

Bad map below; we’ll work on improving it! More from 4G world later…

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