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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

Intel's mobile phone plans still on hold

News Hermon, Intel's second product to combine an applications processor and a mobile phone modem, was supposed to make the phone industry forget about Manitoba, its ill-fated debut in the mobile communications market.

10 March 2006, 10:10

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, 10:05

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, 10:39

22Mbps broadband available nationwide

News The service will be available for £29.99 per month in most urban areas, UK Online said, although customers will need to buy a specialised ADSL2+ compatible modem for £79.99 and pay a one-off connection charge of £25 -- bucking the trend of free...

10 November 2005, 10:01

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, 10:58

The awkward smart phone grows up

News Nor can it get online at the near-cable-modem speed of Verizon's BroadbandAccess network, as the expensive new Samsung i730 can. For another, the 650 was supposed to offer Bluetooth, a wireless technology that lets a mobile phone act as a sort of...

4 July 2005, 10:25

Canadian man hit with $85,000 phone bill

News Staniaszek's father, also named Piotr Staniaszek, said his son thought he could use his new phone as a modem for his computer as part of his unlimited browser plan for C$10 from Bell Mobility, a division of Bell Canada.

14 December 2007, 8:28

One chip to bind all mobile phone functions

News Each contains everything -- the modem, radio transceiver, power management, multimedia engine and security features -- it takes to make a basic mobile phone. On Wednesday Qualcomm unveiled several chips designed to underpin inexpensive mobile...

5 May 2005, 9:57

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

Google IM (almost) gets the message, users say

News Across the Web, many consumers hailed the software's quick download time, which takes a few seconds over broadband and about 3 minutes over a typical modem, according to the Google Talk Web site. The blogosphere is abuzz over Google's new foray...

25 August 2005, 9:57

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, 10:41

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, 11:01

WiMax to hit Stratford-on-Avon

News Users will be expected to install their own modem and will be able to route their voice calls over the WiMax connection. Another area of the UK is set to get a taste of WiMax this year -- the Midlands will be the next region to trial the long-range...

25 August 2005, 10:09