[ale] OT: Sprint bringing WiMax to Arlanta this year

[PairOfTwins]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
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>> PairOfTwins wrote:
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>>> Sean:
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>>> A few weeks ago Clear gave me a demo of their wireless service (
>>> Clearwire + Sprint = Clear ) in a coffeeshop.  6 mbits on the speed
>>> test.  They're planning to "paint the town green" with their ad blitz.
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>>>  From http://www.antennasearch.com/ I can count Clearwire antennas
>>> located on 14 towers within 4 miles of home.  Looks like they're
>>> blanketing the city, but not putting up their own towers.  I'm wondering
>>> whether that loud buzzing in my ears, which began in early February, is
>>> in any way related to the addition of formerly unused spectrum going
>>> live, on top of AM radio, FM radio, analog TV, digital TV, and cell
>>> phone radiation.  When WiMAX was deployed in Sweden, an uptick in ER
>>> visits prompted the government to investigate...
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>> Apparently the address field doesn't like a period, as in 'Dr.'  It kept
>> returning invalid data.  Pretty stupid if you ask me...  Finally got a
>> successful search and it shows 60 towers and 162 antennas within 4 miles.
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> I win! 279 antennas within 4 miles of my house.
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107 Towers with 445 Antennas from our Northlake address.  I was ONLY 
counting towers with Clearwire antennas.  If electrosmog is the prize, 
I'm in the lead.

Tom

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