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O2 rolls out mobile broadband service

News Opting for an 18-month contract, users will get a free USB modem and pay £20 per month for a 3G broadband service with a Those who want a rolling month-on-month contract will have to pay £120 for the modem up-front.

Tags: modem, customer, customers, wi fi

18 April 2008, 9:05

Factory worker faces £27,000 Vodafone bill

News A factory worker from County Durham has run up a £27,000 phone bill by using his mobile as a modem for his PC. Our advice would be to never use a mobile as a modem," Vodafone said. Piotr Staniaszek had also used his mobile as a modem, thinking it...

Tags: modem, connection, canada, supplier

2 January 2008, 9:04

Vodafone speeds up to super-3G

News Vodafone has released a new USB modem, known within the company as the 'Pebble', to take advantage of the new technology. Vodafone is currently running a pre-Christmas promotion for its new USB modem by offering two for the price of one, with an 18...

Tags: modem, functionality, usb, upgrade

12 November 2007, 10:16

Vodafone boosts mobile upload speeds

News As of 3 September, the operator will offer a new version of its HSDPA-enabled USB modem to take advantage of HSUPA, as well as two new Expresscard-based modems. The USB modem will be Vodafone's first to operate across three spectrum bands, making...

Tags: vodafone, upload, modem, hsdpa

29 August 2007, 8:58

GP surgeries enlist digital TV receptionists

News The GP appointment booking service is available for free on digital television, via the Looking Local service on the interactive menus of Sky, cable and Freeview boxes with a modem or broadband connection.

24 July 2007, 9:03

News.blog: Sony Vaio TZ series shipping in Japan

News Back in the day, for roughly the same price (which starts at around £1,418) you would get you a 200MHz Pentium processor, 32MB of RAM, a 2.1GB hard drive, integrated modem and external floppy. The rumoured Vaio TZ has arrived!

23 May 2007, 9:41

Samsung touts improved Q1 Ultra

News According to Samsung, this is because one of its premium features -- an HSDPA mobile modem -- is currently in the middle of a qualification process with US mobile carrier Cingular. Samsung debuted its Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC on Monday with a...

8 May 2007, 11:56

Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops

News OLPC installed a satellite dish, power generator and modem to give the school electricity and Internet connectivity. He and his team chose a school 10 miles outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to deploy the company's first child-friendly laptops in...

13 April 2007, 11:15

Divers get helping hand with wireless tech

News The 'underwater radio' works like a wireless modem and can be used to transmit data to and from unmanned machinery in deep sea. A £1.1m, two-year research project aims to develop technologies to allow divers and machines to communicate wirelessly...

26 March 2007, 10:01

The iPhone: more questions than answers

News And EDGE support isn't going to fly in Asia, where smart-phone users are accustomed to network speeds almost as fast as DSL and cable modem lines in the US. But sometimes, beauty is just skin deep. Tuesday's introduction of the iPhone at Macworld...

11 January 2007, 11:21

NTL:Telewest hit by network failure

News Anyone who turned off the power to their modem during the outage period could have been affected, the company says. NTL:Telewest, the UK's cable broadband operator, has suffered a serious breakdown in its service.

10 January 2007, 10:25

Aeroplane Wi-Fi could take off again

News Planes with Connexion on-board already need only replace the modem, Bruner said, and would get an upgrade to 12Mbps (Megabits per second) to the plane, from Boeing's 5Mbps, with uploads from the plane increasing from 1Mbps to 3Mbps.

26 September 2006, 9:28

HSPDA comes to ultra-portable laptops

News After releasing an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) datacard in June, the mobile operator has now brought out a USB version -- the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Modem. Like the earlier datacard, this modem gives high-speed wireless access...

3 August 2006, 9:39

Ten tech YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

News Brian Finkelstein, a law student at Georgetown University, produced this video of a Comcast technician who came to replace a faulty modem but fell asleep on the couch after spending an hour on hold with the company's central office.

21 July 2006, 10:14

Photos: Inside BT's attack on the digital home

News Previously, Bluetooth rather than Wi-Fi had been used as a bridge between a Fusion user's mobile and the PC's modem. BT has taken the wraps off the latest batch of gadgets it hopes will take off in the digital home.

22 June 2006, 10:59