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Mobile Broadband’s Got a Brand New Logo…
The GSM Association, along with industry heads such as T-Mobile, Orange and Dell, have come up with a new service mark for laptops, phones and other mobile devices equipped with HSPA technology.
The logo’s been created to inform consumers that the device they’re looking at is ‘good to go’ for [...]

Mobile Broadband-Enabled Laptops to be Launched by Xmas…
Yes, Father Christmas will have a whole lot more to carry in his sack this year. Expect laptops with embedded mobile broadband technology to hit the stores (in 91 countries) by this Christmas.
And who do we have to thank for this latest initiative? No other than [...]

Mobile Broadband Technology Given Huge Seal Of Approval By Industry Giants
The GSM Association has spearheaded an initiative to integrate mobile broadband technology into non-cellular equipment such as cameras, laptops, notebooks, MP3 players, cars and even fridges (yes, fridges - they’re experimental like that! I can’t wait for wheelie bins!)
The initiative comes with the full [...]

Mobile phone companies seem to be giving away a lot of free laptops these days. Here are two of the latest offers from 3 and T-Mobile.
If you sign up to one of T-Mobile’s mobile broadband services (Mobile Broadband Plus), you get a snazzy new 15.4″ screen Acer TravelMate laptop on the house (worth £349.99 – [...]

UK computer retailer, PC World will give you a free laptop if you take up a mobile broadband subscription with network operator 3 via their stores.
This is one of the offers in it’s “Get Connected” initiative which enables customers to purchase and be immediately connected with all their computing, broadband and Digital TV needs.

The move [...]

Alec Howard, from Vodafone has predicted that laptops with embedded SIM cards will soon overtake sales of USB dongles. Vodafone and T-Mobile already provide SIM cards for use in all the major laptop manufacturers including Dell, Acer, Sony and HP
Performance of on-board HSPA modems is now comparable to external USB dongles, and according to Howard [...]

PowerupMobile.com, an Edinburgh-based mobile phone retailer are offering an amazing free Asus Eee laptop when you sign up to T-Mobile’s Web and Walk mobile broadband service for 24 months. This offer will presumably kickstart more competition amongst the already crowded market for new mobile broadband customers.