Forum for Wimax as a cell phone

Matt sent me an e-mail after seeing this on /. with the idea of setting up a forum for using WiMAX and netbooks to substitute your phone. He's set up a nice forum over at Ringing Free Forum where I will also be spending some time and concurrently posting about things I find using.

Of course, time has lately been a premium with my plans for Fall up in the air. I've got a chance to go to Korea (national scale WiMAX FTW! w00t!) in August and I am trying to finalize some details. It will work out wonderfully for the experiment (and me) if this goes through since I'll have the excuse of going to a different country to not carry a phone and in the meantime test out some more appropriate hardware (with in-built WiMAX hopefully) to do the 'experiment' with. More on everything soon!

Planning for WiMAX

Looking at the available plans from Clear, I noticed that they have a 6/0.5 unlimited plan for 'home' usage available for $40 a month and a 4/0.5 unlimited for 'mobile' usage for $50 a month. Not sure if the different listed bandwidths will make a difference, but seeing as the WiMAX receivers are no different in the router as they are in the USB modem, how can they charge me differently for the interface from my chip to my computer (how would they know/why does it matter)? Hopefully, this is simply an advertising gimmick hoping to get corporate users to sign up for the 'Mobile' plan. I am going to confirm that there aren't any arbitrary terms (like "No more than 3 hops in a day") for the 'home' connection in the ToS when you sign up.The ToS on their website doesn't have anything relevant but it indicates that a lot of the terms of the service will be listed on the 'order confirmation'.