Boycott Clearwire

Sat Dec 23 19:41:13 PST 2006

The original post makes it seem like Clearwire's leadership are the
only ones making friends with politicians in order to boost business.
I'm sure almost every big business is guilty of the same thing, so it
seems pointless to point a finger at one specific company.

Clearwire has a good product from a tech standpoint, but their service
left a bit to be desired, at least that was my experience a year ago.
Blocking sip/vonage and ALL p2p apps made the service unusable for me.
 It would be different if they were up front about it, but nowhere in
their terms of service did they mention that.  It took weeks to
finally get them to let me out of my contract, and the whole
experience left a bad taste in my mouth.  Clearwire is great if you
need a mobile connection, but with DSL and cable now offering service
for roughly the same price, I don't really see any reason to commit to
a long term contract with Clearwire.

On 12/23/06, Yournet at hotmail.com <yournet at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
> McCaw and many other corporate leaders have their heads up between their
> sweet cheeks in getting carried away and grossly, dangerously miscalculating
> on Bushites cadre of pre-cold war Neanderthals and mis-construed post cold
> war conservative think tank hacks.  This will make a good study in the
> history books and strategic analysis journals for years to come... hopefully
> McCaw and others aren't so removed from reality and full of themselves to
> keep open minds.
>
> This is a tough era for U.S. corporations and mega-moguls: the pre-eminent
> power of the U.S. is being diluted by the very thing that is keeping our
> economy going: growth over seas and the corresponding ability to absorb the
> hundreds of billions of the bongo bucks our congress so willingly mints.
> The knee-jerk Bushite Iraq testosterone war an irrational, blind faith
> attempt to deny reality and set the clock back.
>
> But McCaw's ClearWire is doing the one thing U.S. corporations can do:
> expand internationally as well as domestically so that they participate in
> the shift to a flat world.  Thy can regret the facts but now that they have
> tied our own hands in the inevitable unleashing of conflict in Iraq (it is
> amazing that they could not see events coming.. the same corporate-political
> brain-rot bullshit, dead-head thinking that led us to the events of 9/11).
>
> As for the service: that is a service... if it is a good deal for you, buy
> it. Other competition will be along (Sprint-Nextel) and 3GPP/3GPP2 will
> improve to provide marginal WBB competition (until it gets saturated).
>
> Juvenile rant to ask people to 'boycott Craig McCaw' - he could give a rats
> ass about this lame attempt because you do not have the public awareness
> bandwidth.
>
> Robert Syputa
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Strock
> To: 'SeattleWireless Talk List'
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:24 PM
> Subject: RE: Boycott Clearwire
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> Oh boy.  Causing strife for employees of a company whose founder you don�t
> like is a GREAT way to get back at a president you don�t care for.  Yep, I
> see the logic there.  Thanks for sharing.
>
>
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>
> Mike Strock
>
> mike at myhomeoffice.org
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>
>
> From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net
> [mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Todd
> Boyle
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:17 PM
> To: talk at seattlewireless.net
> Subject: Boycott Clearwire
>
>
>
> We are receiving offers from Clearwire wireless broadband, to subscribe to
> their Internet service.  Now is an opportunity to strike back at Bush and
> his crooked bunch of corporate tycoons.
>
> Craig McCaw lives in a 12,200-square-foot house once owned by musician Kenny
> G in Hunts Point, on the shore of Lake Washington, where neighbors include
> the Gateses. The McCaws hosted President George W. Bush for a re-election
> fund-raiser. Over the years, McCaw has owned a yacht called Cellular One, a
> Gulfstream IV jet, a Falcon 50 jet and a Beaver seaplane....  ---BLOOMBERG
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&sid=aNtp2bS8WFmo
>
>
>
> Since 2003, three of the president's four fund-raising trips to Washington
> have taken him to Medina, where he has collected $4.5 million for the
> Republicans. A Craig McCaw�hosted event raised $1.7 million of that. The
> grateful president in turn last year appointed Craig McCaw's second wife,
> Susan, a venture capitalist, as U.S. ambassador to Austria. ---SEATTLE
> WEEKLY http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0633/playhouse.php
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=clearwire+mccaw+bush+hunts+point
>
> Here is what it looked like in 2004 when Bush came to Hunt's Point. Many of
> you stood with me, including OKelly, Gary, Jack and Jack, and many others.
> http://www.epjc.net/op/StopBush.htm
>
> Your boycott-and-shunning campaign should include all dealings with
> Clearwire's corporate office, 5808 Lake Washington Blvd NE Suite #300,
> Kirkland, WA 98033 including all Clearwire employees, and sales channels.
> http://www.google.com/search?q=clearwire+kirkland&num=30
>
> Clearwire is an evil company.  McCaw supports the Republican Party in order
> to gain business advantage, regulatory favors, provisions and earmarks in
> the Congress--- and ultimately to capture millions of users defecting from
> the previous bunch of evil criminals, Qwest, Verizon and Comcast, in search
> of an honest Internet provider.
>
> DON'T BE FOOLED -- warn all your friends, this is not a good company to
> switch your Internet service to.   As long as McCaw is involved, regard this
> as a completely as equivalent to Bush and Cheney, on their ethics and style
> of doing business.  Consider this like ENRON, for example.
>
> An internet provider has many, many ethical choices involving your privacy,
> your quality of service, and your freedom and liberty.  Would you trust Bush
> to provide net neutrality?   Would you trust Bush and Cheney not to delay
> your email, or block progressive bloggers, or organizing tools like Riseup,
> during elections or invasions?   Well then, you shouldn't trust Clearwire.
>
> Let's show them the power of progressives and liberals in the marketplace.
>
> Todd Boyle
> Kirkland
>
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