Who's got the best mobile wireless laptop data plans?

Posted Mar 30th 2006 8:05AM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Hardware, Applications, Business

Wireless laptops are about to become - if they are not already - the road warrior's *constant* connection to, well, wherever, be it the office or offices, home, clients, etc. No more "downtime" - unless in flight, of course. Verizon's BroadbandAccess and Cingular's Data Connect offer embedded wireless data connectivity on certain Dell, Lenovo and HP laptops - and this feature will become standard soon (my guess) alongside WiFi on many business laptops

Although Verizon's EV-DO and Cingular's HSDPA networks are not truly available nationwide, both wireless connectivity options will fall back to the slower 1xRTT and EDGE protocols automatically, so at least you'll have access anywhere - albeit sometimes not at boradband speeds. The prices, which rage from $40 to $80 based on an existing voice subscription, are pretty reasonable considering the coverage you get and the unlimited data that comes along with it.

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Posted at 9:08PM on Jun 9th 2008 by Mark23

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