WiMax San Antonio TX

Have you ever noticed around Christmas time especially, or in the grocery store when it’s the night before a holiday, that the item you really wanted, wasn’t on the shelf at the store?  Too much demand for the current supply chain.

Well, with the big push this month in August for the “Back to School” special deals on all CLEAR 4G+ modems and hotspots, the demand has out stripped the available supply of 4G+ Hotspot modems. 

At only $50/month for service, plus $5.99/month for equipment, this item has proven to be extremely popular with the customers, breaking sales goals set by corporate, just like the San Antonio market has exceeded its sales goals for 2010 SIX MONTHS EARLY.

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Starting this month (August), CLEAR has apparently started to restrict the sale of fixed location Home Modems (4G only) and even some 4G USB or Personal Hotspots, depending upon your service address.  The following is just an opinion / conjecture on our part, based partially on factual statements made by CLEAR to us dealers,  conversation with other CLEAR Account Reps and Dealers in both San Antonio and Austin markets, and our actual hands on experiences this past week while trying to sell CLEAR in these two markets.

Sometimes growth causes growing pains.  Remember when Cell Phones first came to town?  Some areas were better covered than others, some areas you got “network busy” messages on frequent basis.  Over time, the cell phone companies expanded their systems, to the extent that now we have two of the major carriers (AT&T and Verizon) poking fingers at each other, claiming to have the best 3G Coverage.   Well, CLEAR has the best 4G coverage, in fact the only 4G coverage, and they are spending literally billions of dollars to expand and promote their network. In fact, in a recent release statement, parent company Clearwire execs reported they have reached 1.7 million actual subscribers already in the USA, and their expansion plans call to double the number of markets (cities) by the end of 2010.

First of all, we think part of the “problem” as we  perceive it, is that CLEAR has been such an over whelming success, that they’ve simply over sold in some areas of their market.  Too many  CLEAR customers on too few towers.  You might remember that I mentioned a while back, that CLEAR in San Antonio alone, had reached their 2010 December sales goal by the end of May 2010.   They started a major expansion effort in San Antonio, building new towers where they couldn’t find an existing tower to piggy back, and adding more receivers to existing towers where they need to support more clients.   All in all, we were told to expect about 120 new towers or enhanced tower sites around San Antonio using construction funds reserved for the last 6 months of 2010.   

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Nothing ever stays the same in the tech world, especially pricing.  But it was announced by CLEAR earlier this month that  CLEAR customers wanting to buy their own equipment from CLEAR, rather than leasing it under a 2 year contract, can now expect to pay higher prices.   CLEAR has reduced the subsidy amount they had been applying in the form of discounts at the time of purchase.  Of course if you go on contract, the up front cost is much much less.

Home modems are now running $84.95, while USB modems (depending on model) are running $59.99 – $69.99 each. 4G  Combo modems (i.e. 4G/3G USB modems) are running $224.99 (same price), but the new Mac compatible 4G+ modem is only $112.99 (available starting July 1st).

CLEAR slashed the price of their current CLEARSpot router (aka Cradlepoint’s PHS300 router) from $139.99 to only $49.99 (no lease or contract required), but you still need a CLEAR USB modem of  some sort to make it work on the 4G or 3G network.  We’ve used ours (paid a lot more for it) with both the 4G and 4G+ modem in the past few months.

CLEAR has announced some other changes also, so watch for more postings by us on this topic also.

We are now selling CLEAR services in the San Antonio and Austin Texas markets, including New Braunfels and San Marcos along the IH-35 corridor between the two cities.  Contact us if you are interested in getting CLEAR and we’ll bring it to your door!  Call us at 210-771-7075 or email us at lee@wimaxsatx.com with any questions.

We just received the green light from CLEAR to expand our dealership’s sales territory to include the Austin, Texas market, which includes San Marcos, Austin, and the towns near Austin, such as Pflugerville, Round Rock, etc.

We’ve successfully completed the application process, got the written okay from all parties needed to sign off on it, so now all we’re awaiting is for that pesky computer to get updated so we can start entering orders for customers up north of here.

So please be patient bit longer, and we’ll be in a position soon to start selling CLEAR wireless Internet services to even more folks than before!

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We’re gearing up for this weekend’s American Diabetes Association’s annual Tour de Cure bicycle event, riding from San Antonio to San Marcos on Saturday, May 22nd, and then on to Austin on Sunday, May 23rd.

WiMax San Antonio has received permission to offer FREE Wi-Fi Hotspot services via CLEAR, in San Marcos at the Texas State University’s Butler Hall Finish Line on Saturday, and up in Austin at the Akins High School Finish Line on Sunday.

The service will be FREE, and unsecured, to allow easier access by the riders, volunteers, and staff to use their Smart Phones, iPhones, iPads, Blackberry’s, etc to access the Internet much faster than normal 3G speeds.

Look for our signs posted around the area, then surf away!  If you like it (and we know you will), feel free to call us to find out more.  

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