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IN a milestone of sorts, American households opting for cell phones alone now outnumber those that have only traditional landlines, a new US government survey showed.
By the first half of 2008, 20 percent of households had only cell phones, exceeding the 17 percent with landlines only, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week.
This contrasted sharply with five years ago, when only 3 percent of US households had only cell phones, and 43 percent had only a landline.
FOR the last few weeks, I’ve been trying out Smart’s prepaid broadband service.
Smart Bro Prepaid is available to users with Windows or Mac computers, giving them Internet access anywhere there is a Smart cellular signal.
The initial cost is rather steep—P4,500 for a kit that includes a modem that plugs into a computer’s USB slot. The modem uses HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access), a third-generation mobile phone technology, to connect to the Internet.
AT the risk of angering Blackberry addicts, I’ve always felt that a dedicated e-mail device was a bit excessive. After all, how busy could you be that you’d need constant access to your inbox?
For my experiments in mobile access, I used a Nokia N95, a feature-packed multimedia smart phone that supports both Wi-Fi and 3G services.
MARCH 6, 2006 (MST)—A PIONEER in wireless Internet services last week said it is moving away from individual Wi-Fi hotspots to larger hotzones that can cover an entire mall or even a municipality.
JUNE 20, 2005 (MST) — A Wi-Fi war is about to break out, bringing broadband Internet services to residential users for as low as P900 a month
On one side of the war is telecommunications giant Smart Communications Inc., which plans to make its extensive network of cell sites do double duty by beaming Wi-Fi signals to homes.
WI-FI is a promising new technology but the government seems bent on putting even more obstacles in its path.
SAY “Wi-Fi” and most people think of high-tech road warriors. Of jetsetters using laptops at airports and hotels. Or young executives tapping on their notebooks in posh cafés, checking e-mail wirelessly. Or geeks with handheld computers roaming the malls in search of a good signal.
Last time, we saw how you can easily set up a wireless home network and share your DSL connection. In fact, one aggressive network vendor posted the advantages of doing so on the PLDT myDSL mailing list. These include “maximizing your Internet connection while paying ONLY one account” and giving all computers on the network “unlimited Internet surfing at the same time.”
All this is true, but what is technologically possible is not necessarily legal.
