Am looking to move up to high speed internet here at the hacienda(yea I know-it's 2006 and that's stuffs been available since before Al invented the internet but with 300+ nights on the road, I had no real need for it(dial-up took care of my few needs-slowly but lived with it), Travel is changing now, so here I am)

House is in Raleigh, NC and you'd think with RTP just down the road(silicon gulch) that HSIA would not cost an arm and a leg but it does(I for one hopes that AT&T buys Bellsouth-I want 14.99 SBC/Yahoo/AT&T HSI, like on the West Coast

Got an offer from Clearwire.com for their HSIA-it's wireless HSIA(founded by Craig McGaw)
The plans are
768K-$29.99/mth with 3 months at 19.99(avg 27.49/mth)
3 emails/no storage
1.5M-$36.99/mth with 3 months at 19.99(avg 32.74/mth)
5 emails, 10MB storage.

Those prices seem fair to what my other options are(more below) but $50 activation fee and $99 for the modem(or 4.99/month) so 768K is now 36.65 and 1.5M is 41.90.
1 or 2 yr term-don't see amount for term fee

In comparison
Earthlink Cable Light-768K-29.95/month
Earthlink DSL-1.5-Avg is 29.95/month([email protected] and [email protected])
Earthlink Cable-upto 5.0Mb-35.95/month([email protected] and [email protected])
Free set up and modem(BUT it's Earthlink-had issues with them in past trying to cancel dial up service years ago)
1 yr term-149 fee for early out

(Since this is FT, I can get 10,000 NW/AA/DL miles for around .006/mile by raising monthly cost slightly)

Bellsouth
DSL Lite-256K-24.95/month
DSL ULTRA-1.5M-32.95/month
DSL Extreme-3.0M-37.95
Modem after rebate

Time Warner Cable(Roadrunner)
RR Lite-768K-24.95
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(gotta love a website that you can't find complete pricing information on)

So----it appears that Clearwire is not priced that poorly v. the others.
It appeals to me
1.Because they offer service in Greensboro/Winston-Salem(my parents live in Jamestown)
and I may be able to use the service when I'm there and/or they may be able too as well(maybe even at the same time)
2. I like the idea of new ventures and believe wireless internet is on a good bubble.

Any one tried it?

Thoughts???? Feed Back ?????