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Comcast Bringing Metropolitan WiMAX To Subscribers

Posted by timothy on from the let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom dept.

RickRussellTX writes "Comcast plans to offer 4 megabits/sec WiMAX services to customers in Portland, Oregon starting tomorrow. Branded as 'Comcast High-Speed 2go' and '4G,' the service will require a $44.99 per month subscription in addition to existing Comcast home service. For $69.99 they will offer a dual-mode card with access to both Comcast WiMAX and Sprint's national 3G wireless network. Future rollouts are planned for Chicago, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. Say what you will about Comcast (and I know many Slashdot readers have plenty to say about Comcast), this is a daring attempt to bypass entrenched cell phone companies with a direct-to-consumer wireless service."

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  1. anonymous coward bringing sexy back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Change? Transparency? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then what's with the rush to cram several 1000+ page bills through Congress with no one having actually had time to read them? What's with the dead-of-night document dumps of non-searchable PDFs of bills to be voted on the next day? Anyone who wonders why this country finds itself in the predicament that it does is a clueless moron. Even if we WANTED to pay attention, our "elected" leaders don't give us the chance.