In 2011 an anonymous source told the Wall Street Journal their retail efforts were dead and that the company planned to solely focus on wholesale. Those efforts appeared to be confirmed by a significant closure in retail locations and the elimination of retail brand marketing, followed by Clearwire's elimination of their short-lived "Rover" trendy prepaid brand. However, Clearwire is now claiming that their retail ambitions are not dead after all, given new life by recent Sprint cash infusions. "The retail business is alive and well," insists Clearwire's Dow Draper, who says the company has rekindled some advertising and is seeing "phenomenal" retail uptake. "When it makes sense to add LTE to the retail mix, we'll do that," Draper says.
Clearwire gets some extra cash and decides to use that on retail advertising? What a bunch of morons. That extra cash should go to extending its coverage area and to switch to LTE. And then pitch that expanded coverage to get more wholesale customers. Clearwire could become the home for many wireless MVNOs and also keep Sprint as a wholesale customer with primo LTE coverage.
Before even that how about they run some extra fiber to overloaded towers that drop you down to .75Kbps after downloading a gig of data at 1 am. Then again were dealing with a company that got rid of its official forum cause it was loaded with thousands of complaints calling the company a scam and warning people to avoid it like the plague.
Im close to dumping comcast in favor of clears wimax, the speeds for me were always great, and being able to use their device in south america was a plus. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"
Clearwire gets some extra cash and decides to use that on retail advertising? What a bunch of morons.
We don't know how much of the little extra cash they're spending on retail. If it's just about spending a little maintaining the retail customers they have that wouldn't necessarily make them moronic. OTOH a big new retail push...
when you consider there are places you can go for free wifi hotspots, wireless data is a scam.. just as much of a scam as bottled water.. yet..
If you need your bottled water everywhere and anywhere.. you pay a premium for it.. Poland Spring charges about $6 for a few gallons of the stuff.
Clearwire doesn't offer any other product other than data (probably the most popular product they have are MIFI's for tethering to tablets & smart phones for which consumer's don't care to buy data from their major carrier).
Don't understand why clear doesn't muslce into places where there are companies gouging for wireline internet... Comcast and AT&T have put data caps in place and made the customer experience less pleasant, so clear could pick up some churn customers there intead of pissing off customers along the northeast corridor who have their pick of broadband providers who don't cap or throttle anymore.
Clearwire should stick to wholesale
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