{"id":1096,"date":"2011-06-03T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2011-06-03T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:55:31","slug":"dont-pay-your-bills-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Don’t pay your bills? No problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-06-03\/clearwire-dealers-say-credit-standards-dropped-to-draw-customers.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloomberg is reporting that in an effort to sign up people for the 4G Clear Internet service, some dealers made a conscious choice to ignore the ability of the customer to pay for the 24 months of service in the contract – and many of the accounts never paid any of their bills.<\/p>\n

In the past two days, I’ve been toying again with getting Clearwire, when I discovered their tower is less than a mile from my house.\u00a0\u00a0 However, even so the signal won’t be strong enough because there is a hill in the way.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0reason Clear isn’t taking off is it is TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They have a 4G technology that is highly efficient and fast and pricing it as if it is 2G.\u00a0\u00a0 Their entry level data plan is $20\/month – and for that you get 200 MB of traffic per month.\u00a0\u00a0 At\u00a01 Mb\/sec (Clear goes much\u00a0faster than that), \u00a0you could burn through your entire month’s data in less than half an hour.\u00a0\u00a0 Give me 2 GB of data for that price and maybe we have a deal.\u00a0\u00a0 AT&T’s 3G wireless costs $25 for 2 GB – I know AT&T will be here next year – Clearwire, not so sure….\u00a0\u00a0 Why would I take that risk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-06-03\/clearwire-dealers-say-credit-standards-dropped-to-draw-customers.html Bloomberg is reporting that in an effort to sign up people for the 4G Clear Internet service, some dealers made a conscious choice to ignore the ability of the customer to pay for the 24 months of service in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}