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Mobile Citizen, a provider of broadband for education and non-profits, has announced that it is offering $10 per month WiMAX subscriptions to schools and non-profits in Portland, Las Vegas, Chicago and Philadelphia. Mobile Citizen is the first service provider in the US to offer WiMAX access exclusively to educational institutions and non-profits. They are reselling Clearwire’s WiMAX service.

Mobile Citizen was launched by five non-profits that got their start transmitting educational video to schools in the mid-1980s. These five organizations began providing educational video services to schools in 11 metropolitan areas across the U.S., and they did this by utilizing Educational Broadband Service (EBS) spectrum frequencies regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  Their licensed spectrum is now also used for wireless broadband. The five EBS licensees entered into a 30-year excess capacity agreement with a subsidiary of Clearwire. This agreement allows Mobile Citizen to resell WiMAX service exclusively to schools and nonprofits.

Mobile Citizen has three service plans.  All plans offer download speeds up to 6Mbps and upload speeds of up to 500 Kbps.

• Mobile Internet – just plug the CLEAR USB modem into any standard USB port on your laptop computer to get online.
• Shared Mobile Internet – add-on to the CLEAR USB modem this service creates a fully portable, secure WiFi network from your activate CLEAR USB modem. Share your connection with up to 8 WiFi enabled devices.
• Broadband Internet – offers a low-cost alternative to cable or DSL, the CLEAR modem connects to your computer or WiFI router to the internet;

Each service plan comes with a 30-day risk free trial; the user must sign up for a one-year service contract. Customers can buy the WiMAX modem from Mobile Citizen or use their own WiMAX-enabled device.

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