Originally published January 24 2006
Wireless module gets internet beyond hot spots
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The embedded wireless module from Belgium’s Option NV allows laptops and wireless devices to receive wireless internet within the range of any cell tower. The miniaturized plug-in will be shipped in the first half of 2006.
Belgium's Option NV rolled out an embedded wireless module on Thursday that would allow mobile computers to get a wireless Internet connection if they are in the range of any cell tower and not just within a limited Wi-Fi "hot spot."
The miniaturized plug-in, dubbed the GTM351E, supports the kind of technologies that cellular phone companies use for wireless Internet connections for laptop computers.
Mobile phone companies have only recently started offering such services, which provide greater flexibility for mobile computer users looking to hook into the web (see Cingular Service For Dell PC, Verizon Pushes Wireless PCs).
Option's latest offering is a mini "PCI card," a credit card-sized module that snaps onto a motherboard rather than being inserted into slots outside the machine.
This makes the technology able to be integrated into computers, which in turn is likely to help increase the popularity of wireless Internet services.
"Wi-Fi became popular when the technology was integrated into the notebook.
To be sure, the company is the first to admit that technologies for mobile computers' wireless Internet connection are still too new to generate huge returns.
"They won't be widely adopted for at least two years," CEO Jan Callewaert recently told Red Herring.
"The business model between operators and IT manufacturers for commercializing embedded wireless modules is still in its early stages."
The new plug-in supports 3G HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), the world's latest and fastest technology; UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service), widely used in Asia; and quad band EDGE/GPRS WWAN (wireless wide area network), a lower level technology used in the United States.
The module is already being made for platform integration, the company said, and units will be shipped for commercial markets during the first half of 2006.
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