Google to sell Clearwire stake at 94 percent loss

I had clearwire for a year. Worst service ever! It was so slow and it always randomly shut down and wouldn't connect to the internet for hours. SOOO glad I switched.

Clear sucks! With an unlimited plan you still get managed and your bandwidth plummets. Horrible customer service. They never do what they say.

Clearwire, what a bunch of drunks!

This does not bode well for Sprint's 4G efforts. First, LightSquared got rejected by the FCC in their effort to build an LTE network--something which Sprint had counted on in their Network Vision strategy (Sprint was going to be a distributor of LightSquared). Now Clearwire is losing allies at a time when they are trying to convert from WiMAX to TD-LTE--and Sprint needs Clearwire to help increase their 4G capacity.

Clearwire sucks... i can see why.... i was stuck with them for 2 years...every night around 7pm was as slow as dial up!

Trouble is, it just doesn't work, not yet anyway. To many dropouts.

The author got the loss percent wrong. Since when is 94% loss of $500 million $47 million? They are selling it for $47,000,000 so they are selling it at a 90.6% loss.

I bought into ClearWire when they had 3G unlimited guaranteed for life for USD30 per month.
When they forced me to upgrade to 4G, they forced a doubling of my band-width. They then sent two notices back to back that said that I exceeded the aggregated data rate that they wanted over a two week period which somehow caused congestion, and that on the third notice, my account would be terminated. They would not give a data rate that I was allowed so I had no way to know if I could down load one movie per day or per month. If anyone doesn't understand, it is not the person driving across country that causes rush hour congestion, it is the traffic speed and infrastructure. Both of which only the ISP can control. Verizon understands this and gives everyone a range of band-widths and they can dynamically adjust if needed to avoid congestion. Too bad that Clear doesn't have management and technicians that can understand how a network works.

Cut your losses and run. Worst net provider ever. Had better service with a 56k modem.

i could tell you why, if they sell it, they can get a tax credit. thus lowering there tax rate

The biggest problem was when they wanted to pass a bill to monitor and regulate the internet with verizon, sprint, and clearwire. They wanted a tiered internet where you paid a certain amount per month depending on the kind of content you want. Email? $15, Surfing on basic internet full of ads? $15 more. Video subscriptions like youtube, hulu and others? another $15. I'm glad this just went off on the back burner and never passed

Just did a bandwidth check and found that Clear is 13 times slower than my cell phone hotspot.
about 201 kbs vs 2626 kbs. Should have done this test sooner. Adios Clear. $40 not well spent.

Clear is supposed to be 4G and fast, but I have my doubts. Every Yahoo news item that has a video, seems I can only get the first 10 secs, then suddenly stops. Never fails for the past year. When I use my cell phone to generate a hot spot at 4G, I can then see the news video at normal speed without interruption. I'm about ready to cancel Clear.

And I sold my google shares @ $350.00.......

Runs pretty good for me. No prob w/downloads; a little slow w/uploads. Service lockouts three times in the last year. One was a car into a service pole. No complaints. Better than verizon, sprint, att.

Clear and WiMax are a lost cause. I stated back when LTE was just an idea that if Clear dumped WiMax in favor of LTE that Google would walk. I was with a company that we rented the USB devices for conventions it was a good deal, but Clear has problems. In Vegas they did not know how to stop the signal without large buildings, the signal just decimated. In Chicago they did not know how to get around all the bug buildings. They continued to screw the customers they already had to try and capture customers they hadn't #$%$ off yet.

clear wire is pretty good here in chicago
on a slow day i drop 2 to 3 mbs
almost everynight i drop about 10 to 15mbs

My service from Clearwire was not bad. I drove all over with internet connection...in my car! I liked it. I thought the company had legs, especially with companies like At&t