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This looks like another result of CLEAR opening up their network for other vendors to sell their data. Freedompop is doing a similar thing, just without the Karma component to it.

Nice to see what happens when a company like CLEAR opens things up -- all sorts of innovation springs.

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Except the CLEAR network blows. I used to have a couple retail stores and sold them off because I felt terrible getting so many complaints about service quality and could see the company already declining as key investors were pulling out.

The nodes were initially unsaturated and speedy -- you could often get 15-20mbps on mobile hotspot. Now people are lucky to get 512kbps on their home modems in moderately dense residential areas.

Clear's network isn't great, but I really like the pay-as-you go aspect of this. Right now I'm paying $25 a month for an unlocked iSpot but I go weeks without using it.

Out of curiosity, do you know if this is more due to wimax cell saturation or backhaul limitations?

Clear throttles customers after a certain threshold. In addition ozi's comment is accurate.

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