Noah VailOh God please no. Premium Member join:2004-12-10 SouthAmerica |
I'd guess SprintThe only US partnership I can find for Macheen is with Sprint. | |
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Re: I'd guess Sprintif it's an MVNO, outside of branding and visibility for Lenovo, I'm not too sure about the prospect of profiting from a partnership like this on Lenovo's end as it's pretty small scale. | |
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| | Noah VailOh God please no. Premium Member join:2004-12-10 SouthAmerica |
Re: I'd guess Sprintsaid by will_lam:if it's an MVNO, outside of branding and visibility for Lenovo, I'm not too sure about the prospect of profiting from a partnership like this on Lenovo's end as it's pretty small scale. If there's a pushy service activation app that's launched at first-run; I could see sales coming from that. That's the method that Symantec used to to get rich, selling performance destroying crapware for over 10 years. | |
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Re: I'd guess SprintEver used MacAFee? They make Symantec look like angels.
Also, Symantec has fixed their software now. It actually runs quite well. | |
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Re: I'd guess Sprintsaid by iansltx:Ever used MacAFee? They make Symantec look like angels. For 10 years both of them ripped off their consumer-class customers. said by iansltx:Also, Symantec has fixed their software now. It actually runs quite well. Sometimes. I've had 2 Symantec uninstalls off Windows Servers this year. Each one took me 3 hours to tweezer them out of the OS. More to the point, Symantec has 10 years of fraud to atone for. If they'd care to refund every consumer-class purchase, made between 2000 and 2009, we could see if they're still an ethically corrupt company or not. | |
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Re: I'd guess SprintFair enough. | |
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| | | | | BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT |
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They're also both resource hogs. I can't believe those companies are still in business considering Microsoft offers free AV in Windows now. | |
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| a333A hot cup of integrals please join:2007-06-12 Rego Park, NY |
to Noah Vail
Considering Karl's article is mentioning "up to 21 Mbps" speeds, my guess would be that the partnership is with either T-mobile or AT&T. Makes more sense, since the offerings can also be unified on an international scale, or at least be of interest to people who travel often (i.e. Lenovo can also market similar stuff in markets abroad, since GSM/HSPA+ is deployed pretty much across the globe, as opposed to CDMA which is limited to the US and South Korea). | |
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| | djdanskaRudie32 Premium Member join:2001-04-21 San Diego, CA |
djdanska
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2012-Jun-11 12:29 pm
Re: I'd guess SprintI agree and it sounds like at&t, considering t-mobile's 4g is 42Mb down vs. at&t's 21Mb HSPA+ | |
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BiggA to a333
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2012-Jun-11 6:52 pm
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Yup. It's probably AT&T, given their geographic reach with HSPA+. | |
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tcope Premium Member join:2003-05-07 Sandy, UT |
tcope
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2012-Jun-11 10:29 am
No the right price pointI can't see consumers wanting this type of plan. If they need late limtited of data access they will sit in a McDonals parking lot for a few minutes. That is... go some place that has fre WiFi and have lunch. With the price comparasion the lunch would really be free.
I think the price point for this type of service would be around $10 for an entire day, up to 1GB. I don't think most people would use 1GB in a day so it sounds like they are offering a lot for $10 but data usage would be less. | |
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Re: No the right price pointConsumers will probably rarely bite, but business users will. Remember, the Thinkpad is marketed as a business/professional's laptop. In cases where other connectivity is not available and a user has to get online, say from a job site, this makes sense. Only time will tell how successful this is, but I suspect this plan isn't there itself to make profits, but rather to advertise it as a benefit to owning Thinkpad and increasing sales of the notebooks as a result. | |
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tcope
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2012-Jun-12 10:40 am
Re: No the right price pointTrue, but I'd think a company who's employees need a data connection are already going to have something in place... something much cheaper then what Lenovo is offering.
I think it does need to make money as Lenovo has a deal with some provider. If that deal is not making that data provider money then they are not to stop offering it. Though, I can't see the plan really costing Lenovo or the data provider much, other then admin costs. | |
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elray
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2012-Jun-11 12:01 pm
Works for me!While I'm concerned that Lenovo may have misjudged American 3G performance (up to 21Mbps? More like 256kbps.), the price point does work, if you have very intermittent / itinerant needs not served by WiFi, though I think they'll need to look closely at the data allocations. | |
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| djdanskaRudie32 Premium Member join:2001-04-21 San Diego, CA |
djdanska
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2012-Jun-11 12:27 pm
Re: Works for me!said by elray:While I'm concerned that Lenovo may have misjudged American 3G performance (up to 21Mbps? More like 256kbps.), the price point does work, if you have very intermittent / itinerant needs not served by WiFi, though I think they'll need to look closely at the data allocations. Misjudged? I don't have any problem getting 20Mb down on my smartphone and tablet. Maybe your using the wrong carrier? lol | |
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elray
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2012-Jun-12 4:36 pm
Re: Works for me!said by djdanska Misjudged? I don't have any problem getting 20Mb down on my smartphone and tablet. Maybe your using the wrong carrier? lol
3G service in this town, on Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T, has never exceeded 400kbps. Sprint could push towards 1Mbps, but no longer.
Clear service manages to paint the entire county, except our little hamlet. Cricket, Leap, and their cousin MetroPCS don't sell 3G broadband data access, or don't sell it here. Everyone else is reselling one of the above.
What carrier am I supposed to be using? | |
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA |
tshirt
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2012-Jun-11 1:06 pm
This could work for..... a certain market segment. Say, students who usually use a home or school network, and can't afford/ won't buy/don't see the need for a full time mobile account, but may OCCASIONALLY need wireless at a remote site or while traveling.
Many people bought laptops that spend most of the time/ in some cases exclusively used at home. Not alot different than paying for WiFi at a hotel, EXCEPT this is cellular so it can be used almost anywhere, and of course carries a heavier price tag. Convience is often expensive. | |
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djdanska
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2012-Jun-11 1:48 pm
Re: This could work for...The lenovo i bought a few months ago came with wimax built in, and to be honest, it helpful since i travel a bit, and hate paying up to $15 for wifi at the hotel per night. (nyc! Yeesh) plus being able to use hulu and netflix and use the hdmi output of the laptop totally helps. | |
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