Comcast 4G Chicago
Chicago now has Comcast 4G. As with the Sprint and Clearwire network services, Comcast is offering phone users a USB modem to use hook up notebooks and PCs to the Comcast 4G network.
Comcast says it hopes to win extra customers in Chicago by bundling a 4G mobile broadband connection with its residential service.
Comcast’s 4G is also available in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Portland, Oregon.
Sprint 4G Hits Chicago, Dallas and North Carolina
Sprint’s 4G mobile WiMAX service is now available in an extra ten markets including Chicago and Dallas – Fort Worth. It’s also arrived in a number of areas of North Carolina including Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary, plus Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point.
As usual, the 4G phones and data modems used by Sprint customers in these areas will fall back to the regular 3G service from Sprint when the phone user moves out of a 4G coverage area.
Clear, Comcast and Sprint 4G in New Cities
Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint have set out a timetable for extending their 4G WiMAX mobile phone services to more markets.
All three mobile phone operators will launch new high speed services in Philadelphia over the coming weeks. Chicago is slated for a 4G launch in November with Seattle / Tacoma to follow in December.
Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will operate service under their own brands.
Chicago 4G Phone Network Coming
The world of 4G mobile internet broadband in coming to Chicago.
Mobile phone networks Sprint and Clear will allow Chicagoans to enjoy internet speeds of three to five times that of 3G phones by Christmas. Mobile users will be able sign up for Clear’s service and buy 4G wireless data devices at Best Buy, Fry’s Electronics and Clearwire stores.
