Further to our announcement of the 3 USB Stick Modem yesterday, 3 have confirmed that they plan to offer the modem on a wider range of tariffs (12 month contracts and on Broadband Lite (1Gb)). These options are all likely to incur a small charge to buy the device, and aren’t available yet.
This new USB Stick Modem has been released by 3 today. It’s currently available for FREE, but only on the two higher Broadband contracts (Broadband 3Gb 24 months and Broadband 7Gb 24 months or 18 months); there’s no word as to whether it will be available on PAYG.
T-Mobile (through T-Mobile Venture Fund) has invested an undisclosed sum into Ubiquisys, a femtocell manufacturer. A femtocell is a home base station for your mobile phone, ensuring you get 3G data and good signal strength, which usually utilises the broadband connection to route the mobile phone data and calls back to your network operator. This bodes well for the future, and we should expect to see femtocells becoming a lot more common over the next couple of years.
Story courtesy of SMS Text News.
Today, from 10am, 3 are running a promotion. Buy a phone on a monthly contract (or a mobile broadband monthly contract) and you will be entered into an hourly draw to win a Nintendo Wii. The promotion runs for 24 hours, so any order must be placed by 10am tomorrow (Friday). With 3’s next day delivery (if ordered before 1pm), you may have missed Valentine’s day, but you can at least give your loved one a new phone tomorrow, and you never know, you might also soon be the owner of a new Wii.
Virgin are apparently about to start the process of upgrading (for free) it’s broadband customers from 4Mb to 10Mb. This upgrade process will start in February, and take until the Summer to complete. As part of this, they are also upgraded the upload speed to 512Kb. More information here.
Story courtesy of TechDigest.
3 have released a couple of limited edition versions of their USB Modem. The hardware and mobile broadband plans are the same, but the modem is now available in pink and black. These two new colours are available now, and at the same price as the original white.
As a bit of light hearted relief for a Friday afternoon, we’re going to try a special article each week on a Friday, and highlight some gadget not available in the UK which we think should be!
This week, the Vudu HD Movie Streamer…
DigitalSpy report that Virgin Media have confirmed they are planning to launch a 50Mbps Broadband service in 2008. It’s currently being trialled, and those trials are proving successful.