[ale] OT: Sprint bringing WiMax to Arlanta this year

[justin caratzas]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
> > PairOfTwins wrote:
> >> Sean:
> >>
> >> A few weeks ago Clear gave me a demo of their wireless service (
> >> Clearwire + Sprint = Clear ) in a coffeeshop.  6 mbits on the speed
> >> test.  They're planning to "paint the town green" with their ad blitz.
> >>
> >>  From http://www.antennasearch.com/ I can count Clearwire antennas
> >> located on 14 towers within 4 miles of home.  Looks like they're
> >> blanketing the city, but not putting up their own towers.  I'm wondering
> >> whether that loud buzzing in my ears, which began in early February, is
> >> in any way related to the addition of formerly unused spectrum going
> >> live, on top of AM radio, FM radio, analog TV, digital TV, and cell
> >> phone radiation.  When WiMAX was deployed in Sweden, an uptick in ER
> >> visits prompted the government to investigate...
> >
> > Apparently the address field doesn't like a period, as in 'Dr.'  It kept
> > returning invalid data.  Pretty stupid if you ask me...  Finally got a
> > successful search and it shows 60 towers and 162 antennas within 4 miles.
> >
> I win! 279 antennas within 4 miles of my house.
>
> Why does Kentucky Fried Chicken have a radio antenna? And it's not on
> their building.
>
>
I always wondered what that giant chicken was for
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