Archive for December, 2009
AT&T Upgrades Vermont Mobile Broadband
Vermont Gets Lit Up With 3G Mobile Broadband
AT&T continues to make upgrades to its’ 3G mobile broadband network. AT&T customers in Bennington, Brattleboro, Brownsville, Killington, Vernon, and Warren will go live this week on a rolling basis. More cities throughout the Vermont state area will be upgraded by December 31st, with the remainder of the state being upgraded during 2010. Full press release.
Verizon Wireless Gives Free WiFi to Mobile Broadband Laptop Customers
Verizon Mobile Broadband Customers Get Free WiFi
Verizon Wireless announced today that mobile broadband laptop customers can now access free wifi throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico at no additional charge. Customers must use VZAccess Manager on their laptops, and must have an existing mobile broadband plan. All Verizon computing devices are supported including usb mobile broadband modems, wireless pc cards, Verizon Wireless MiFi, and laptops and netbooks with built in mobile broadband.
McDonald’s Offers Free Nationwide Wireless
McDonald’s and AT&T Team Up to Offer Free Unlimited WiFi Nationwide
McDonald’s will offer free unlimited wireless in all of its’ restaurants in the United States starting in mid-January of 2010. The free wifi will be supplied by AT&T, and will be available in 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants across the US. The free wifi will complement the McCafe product offerings which feature coffee and accompiments that make McDonald’s restaurants destinations beyond breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Customers will definitely increase their average time in attendance at most restaurants given unlimited wifi usage, and expanding use of mobile broadband laptops. Soon it won’t be unusual to see customers enjoying a meal at McDonald’s while surfing the web on their mobile broadband laptop.
TeliaSonera Launches LTE Mobile Broadband Laptop Service
TeliaSonera Rolls Out LTE Broadband For Laptops in Stockholm & Oslo
TeliaSonera teamed with Samsung to offer consumers LTE mobile broadband for laptops using a Samsung 4G USB modem. Mobile broadband laptop users in Stockholm (Sweden) and Oslo (Norway) can now sign up for mobile broadband service for $84 dollars per month, for 30 GB data at data rates up to 80 Mbps (megabits per second). TeliaSonera is believed to be the first wireless provider in the world to deploy LTE (Long Term Evolution), which is 4G wireless broadband. Expect TeliaSonera to deploy LTE in 3 more cities in Norway, and 25 more cities in Sweden during the 2010 fiscal year. It isn’t clear is consumers must buy the Samsung USB modem, or if it comes free with mobile broadband laptop service.
UPDATE: Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM is reporting that TeliaSonera is offering introductory LTE prices of less than $1 per month!
Fujitsu LifeBook Mobile Broadband Laptop
Fujitsu Debuts LifeBook UH900 Laptop With Built-In Mobile Broadband
Fujitsu introduced a powerful handheld mobile broadband laptop with built in 3G connectivity. The Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 sports a 5.6 inch multitouch screen with full support for Windows 7. It also has a 62GB SSD and WXGA display resolution. Pricing and availability aren’t announced as of yet, but we’ll update as soon as we have them.
Mobile Broadband Laptop by Verizon Wireless
Mobile Broadband Laptop and Mobile Broadband Router Illustration by Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless has an excellent mobile broadband laptop illustration on video that highlights a multitude of possible uses of a mobile broadband laptop. It also highlights use of the MiFi mobile router, which connects up to five devices with wifi capabilities.
Verizon Wireless // Mobile Broadband with MiFi from SALT on Vimeo.