{"id":219123,"date":"2009-12-29T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sidecutreports.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:47:41","slug":"want-wimax-for-ces-rent-a-clearwire-modem-from-cheetah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219123","title":{"rendered":"Want WiMAX for CES? Rent a Clearwire Modem from Cheetah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to try Clearwire’s WiMAX wireless broadband service while you’re in Vegas for CES? Move now and reserve yourself a modem or modem-and-pocketspot combo from local provider Cheetah, which is teaming up with Clearwire to offer WiMAX rentals<\/a> for as little as $12.50 a day.
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So instead of paying exorbitant hotel fees for slow, shared DSL or clogged Wi-Fi — or taking a crapshoot on what will likely be crowded 3G airwaves — you can instead have a mobile connection<\/a> of between 3 to 6 Mbps on the download side, pretty much anywhere in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

In addition to renting both USB modems (for laptops and netbooks) and desktop modems, Cheetah will also be renting a combo of a modem and Clearwire’s Clear Spot portable WiMAX\/Wi-Fi router<\/a>, which will let you connect a small workgroup of Wi-Fi devices. They are also offering a hybrid modem rental, which will fall back to 3G coverage in case you find yourself out of a WiMAX coverage zone.<\/p>\n

Single-day prices, according to the Cheetah site<\/a>, are $12.50 a day for a USB WiMAX modem, $15 a day for a desktop modem, $17.50 for a modem\/portable router combo, and $20 a day for a hybrid 3G\/4G modem. Costs per day go down with multiple days, with a 4-day basic modem total hitting $39.84, or less than $10 a day for fast broadband access.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to this bat-channel for a Twitter hashtag for Cheetah CES rental users… we will be happy to collect and publish a list of WiMAX download experiences! UPDATE:<\/strong> Let’s use #CLEAR4RENT and see how many people sign on and how fast they can connect… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Want to try Clearwire’s WiMAX wireless broadband service while you’re in Vegas for CES? Move now and reserve yourself a modem or modem-and-pocketspot combo from local provider Cheetah, which is teaming up with Clearwire to offer WiMAX rentals for as little as $12.50 a day. So instead of paying exorbitant hotel fees for slow, shared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}