Warning: 10 Reasons You Could Get Hooked on WiMax Internet

By Melissa Delaney of WirelessInternetReviews.com

Yes. Heed the warning. Simply reading the following information could be enough to get you hooked before you even experience it first hand. This is the data access you have dreamed of and hoped for.

1. Higher Speeds – 6 Mbps for residential use and 4 Mbps for mobile users is what they are predicting for the initial WiMax speeds and those will increase as the Wimax ‘cells’ decrease in size. Highspeed connections for everyone with a few miles of the transmitter.
2. Increased Data Capabilities – More efficient, faster, high quality delivery of data means that high level data content like video streaming, gaming, etc. will flow unhampered for all the users of the WiMax system.
3. Higher Quality – The small cell concept of the WiMax internet service allows for much higher quality data delivery on a consistent basis for its subscribers. Watching movies and television on your computer devices will be better than ever.
4. Lower Prices – The cost of delivering internet service through the WiMax system is expected to be significantly lower due to lower equipment cost and competition between equipment providers for the widespread installation of cells.
5. Wireless Access – Wireless access to the internet from anywhere in your home or business. A great convenience for all consumers. No need to choose between cable or DSL or satellite.
6. Rural Access – Rural users will now have an affordable means of accessing the internet at high speeds in locations where that was not economically feasible previously.
7. Expanded Access – Many areas that previously had limited access to the internet, especially at high speeds will be able to gain that access through WiMax.
8. NLOS Service – No Line Of Sight Service is one of the reasons that WiMax is able to provide the kind of wireless access to the internet described here. Cellphones will lose signal when they lose their ‘line of sight’ to cell towers. This has very little impact on WiMax.
9. Community Wide – WiMax is designed to provide community wide internet service. This would mean improved internet service for the entire community, schools, libraries, businesses, non-profits and individuals.
10. Quick Expansion – Reduced costs will also mean greater profitability for the ISP’s delivering the service. Greater profitabilities will mean faster expansion of the services to communities.

Are you hooked yet? You should be. When will it be coming to you? I can’t answer that question, but keep your eyes open for more in the news in the not too distant future.

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Wireless users opt for service without commitment

Wireless users opt for service without commitment - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK – For wireless subscribers, commitment is out and short-term relationships are in.

This year, customers have been making a big shift away from two-year contracts toward "prepaid" cell phone service, which often costs less and does not require contracts. This is happening even though contracts are needed to get popular phones such as the iPhone and the Droid.

Now prepaid service looks like it will get even more attractive, with further price cuts. That's because wireless carriers have hit a wall when it comes to finding new customers who will sign contracts.

"I would love to have an iPhone. I just can't swallow the $70 or more bill that would come with it," said Jeff Finlay, a 45-year-old stay-at-home dad in San Antonio who uses a prepaid plan.

Unlike contract plans that bill subscribers each month for the services they used the previous month, prepaid services traditionally let subscribers buy minutes in advance for around 10 cents to 20 cents each. When the minutes are used up, people "refill" their accounts as needed.

For years, such plans were marketed primarily to people who did not have the credit to qualify for plans with contracts. But as the recession forced more people to cut costs, prepaid service appealed to a broader slice of the market, and prepaid services responded by offering better deals.

How low can low-cost wireless carriers go?

READ complete story at Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

"At a time when major wireless carriers are beginning to require expensive data plans for many of their users, low-cost mobile companies keep making their prepaid calling plans broader and cheaper.

Cricket, the low-cost, pay-as-you-go wireless carrier operated by Leap Wireless (LEAP), said Tuesday that it would begin offering the nation's first $30-per-month unlimited nationwide talk and text plan. Coverage will be available in 125 U.S. cities across all 50 states.

That's $10 a month cheaper than any other prepaid nationwide unlimited plan available in the United States. Low-cost rival MetroPCS (PCS) offers a $40-a-month plan and competitor TracFone Wireless' Straight Talk has a $45-per-month plan.

As for the major carriers, Sprint's (S) Boost Mobile has a comparable prepaid plan for $50 a month, and T-Mobile and AT&T (T) both offer similar prepaid plans for $60 a month. Verizon (VZ) does not offer a comparable prepaid unlimited talk and text plan."

Wireless "power mat" charging options on the rise

By Christopher Null / Yahoo! Tech

"There's nothing more frustrating than fumbling around in a dark room after a long night out, trying to plug your cell phone into the wall, making sure you've got that tiny plug oriented the right way, and getting everything all copacetic so you can hit the hay. And God help you if you didn't get the adapter pushed in quite far enough... why, just about anything can go wrong in the delicate process of plugging stuff in.

But what if you just had to take your phone out of your pocket and lay it down on the counter so it could charge wirelessly? It's been a dream of many a gadget maven for years, and now 'power mat' charging solutions are finally becoming a reality, with numerous such products hitting the market in time for the holidays.

Powermat was perhaps the first company to enter this space, and it's still going strong with a sleek charging pad and fairly good device support. Like all such mat-based charging systems, you can't just take any electronic device and drop it on the pad to get it charging. You have to add a sleeve or adapter of some sort to your phone or other device in order for it to be able to work with the plug-less charging system. Users generally leave this sleeve affixed permanently to their phones. In the case of the Powermat sleeve, it adds a bit of bulk to the handset, with a small square piece jutting out the back of the phone.

Powermat is not alone: Duracell's new myGrid offers much the same type of charging solution, again with a sleeve setup that lets the base unit interface with the handset directly. A single mat can charge four products at once. There are even specialized charging systems available for specific devices, like Energizer's mat designed to wirelessly charge your Nintendo Wii controllers.

How well do they work? I'm still waiting on my review samples for the latest round of chargers, but users seem generally pleased with them. The big advantage, of course, is that cable clutter is eliminated, and fussy Virgo types like myself get a real kick out of getting rid of exposed wiring in the home. Some aren't thrilled with the bulk added by the sleeves, however, and the Wall Street Journal recently surfaced complaints that wireless power mats waste energy even when they aren't charging anything. Prices can be on the high side, too.

Will wireless charging go big-time? The Palm Pre offers a wireless charging solution, no adapter or sleeve required, that users seem to like -- but it will probably take more successful products, and hopefully some industry standards being developed, to push integrated wireless charging solutions into the mainstream. I'm ready!"

Verizon Wireless to support e-book reader

By Wireless- msnbc.com (CLICK to read more)

"Verizon will be providing wireless book downloads for an electronic reading device, joining AT&T and Sprint in supporting electronic books.

IREX Technologies, a Dutch company, said Wednesday that it would start selling an e-book reader this fall for $400. It will have a screen with an 8.1-inch diagonal, in between the size of the two models of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle.

The Kindle was the first e-book reader on the U.S. market with a cellular Internet connection, supplied by Sprint Nextel Corp. AT&T's network will support upcoming readers from Sony Corp. and Plastic Logic Ltd."

Wireless Internet use up sharply

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"More Americans are accessing the Internet using wireless mobile devices such as smartphones and laptops, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

'Use of the Internet on mobile devices has grown sharply from the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009,' with 56 percent of Americans saying that have 'at some point used wireless means for online access,' the Pew Center said.

While laptops, game consoles and MP3 players were cited as some of the devices used for wireless Internet access, Pew's findings show that smartphones — such as the iPhone or BlackBerrys which have Web access and e-mail — are playing a fast-growing role."