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New AT&T HSUPA Cards
Both free with 2-year contract, rebates...
AT&T has unveiled two new LaptopConnected HSUPA data cards for wireless broadband users, the GT Ultra and GT Ultra Express. The two cards, essentially PC Card and Express Card versions of the same device, are made by Option. Both are available for $49.99, assuming you're on board with a two-year contract and a $60/month AT&T DataConnect plan. Speeds should be between 600kbps-1.4Mbps downstream oand 500kbps-800kbps upstream.
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The GT Ultra features a retractable antenna that is compatible in laptops with PC Card (Type II) slots. The GT Ultra Express is compatible with laptops that have ExpressCard (34 mm) slots and features a flip-up antenna for optimal broadband performance. It also automatically installs AT&T Communication Manager when first used with notebooks that have Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(R), Windows XP and Windows 2000(1). This provides a plug-and-play installation experience for most users and eliminates the need for an installation CD. Both cards are tri-band UMTS/HSPA (850/1900/2100 MHz) and GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) compatible, making it easy to connect in more than 140 countries, including Japan and Korea.
Judging from the press release, for a limited time users should be able to get either card for free if they sign up for a two year AT&T wireless contract and send in the appropriate rebate forms. As AT&T recently noted, they'll be upgrading their HSDPA wireless broadband network with HSUPA (primarily geared at increasing the upstream speeds) throughout 2008.
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xenophon
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xenophon

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What happened to 7.2Mbps?

What happened to 7.2Mbps? Is ATT not able to supply that much bandwidth to the sites? They have some serious catching up to do with Sprint/Alltel in both performance and 3G coverage. Sprint/Alltel cover about 230m population with EVDO (they roam 3G to each other). I don't think ATT is much past 150m pops with 3G.

en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA

en102

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

I don't think they're really worried about Sprint. Verizon Wireless is their main competitor.
xenophon
join:2007-09-17

xenophon

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

Verizon is kicking their arse too with about 210m coverage with EVDO. The reality is though that Sprint is winning with laptop cards. 3gstore says Sprint is outselling Verizon 2:1 with laptop cards. ATT really isn't much of a player yet.

en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA

en102

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

True, that Sprint may have a better datacard ratio than Verizon Wireless, however AT&T has ~70 million GSM/3G subs, Verizon Wireless has almost as many, and lower churn rate.
Sprint has ~40 million CDMA subs + ~15million iDEN subs + MVNO.

I don't think in general, AT&T/Verizon Wireless are all that 'worried', as they have a lot of corp contracts as well as a large number of subscribers. Currently, I don't think that AT&T or Verizon is heavily promoting its datacards. Sprint on the otherhand is promoting data.
xenophon
join:2007-09-17

xenophon

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

Was talking data cards not phones. The voice numbers are obvious.

Doesn't matter who ATT considers competition, they are far behind the major players.

RadioDoc

join:2000-05-11
La Grange, IL

RadioDoc

Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

You might want to talk 3G phones too, since ATT has data plans which allow tethering which works the same as a data card. You don't need the card if you can connect to your phone via Bluetooth or USB just about anytime you want.
xenophon
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xenophon

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

»/mspee ··· omains=1

en102
Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA

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en102

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

Not a huge difference, especially given the volume of samples.
Those are typically mini browser phone-based stats

Datacard/Tethered are here
»/archi ··· ?cid=265
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RadioDoc

join:2000-05-11
La Grange, IL

RadioDoc to xenophon

to xenophon
Is that supposed to provide some kind of information?
Doug135
join:2008-01-12
Laredo, TX

Doug135 to xenophon

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It says in the headline that its HSUPA yet in the quote it says HSDPA, did I read it wrong or theres a typo? That's still fast considering its running off of cell site.

inteller
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join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK

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Verizon doesn't even do 3.6
xenophon
join:2007-09-17

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xenophon

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

said by inteller:

Verizon doesn't even do 3.6
Haha, neither does ATT... They're lucky if the get 2Mbps in real world results.

»/archi ··· mode.com

EVDO can more often get over 2Mbps in real world.

en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA

en102

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Re: What happened to 7.2Mbps?

Both EVDO and HSDPA can get more than 2Mbps in the real world. It will depend on a few things
1) Version (EVDO REV 0 doesn't, neither does HSDPA 1.8)
2) Back haul
3) Spectrum/capacity

Won't do much good if these any one of these conditions aren't met.

bigunk
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join:2001-02-10
USA

bigunk

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Is it unlimited...

or are they gonna pull a Verizon on us?

FFH5
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join:2002-03-03
Tavistock NJ

FFH5

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Re: Is it unlimited...

said by bigunk:

or are they gonna pull a Verizon on us?
It is not completely UNLIMITED. There are TOS for abuse. Just read the TOS.

jlramirez
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join:2004-10-01
Sugar Grove, IL

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jlramirez

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Refurbed cards?

Their site indicates that the Option cards are refurbed (which are free with the rebate)»www.wireless.att.com/cel ··· ards.jsp ...

I'm still a fan on the Sierra wireless cards... Always worked over the years..

Have the 881 which works great...
flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ

flyingjoey

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at&t's a joke

Is it me... or am I the only person who finds AT&T data offerings anemic, unreliable and lacking.

I get better throughput tethering my PCC6700 (obviously in Manhattan) than what at&t offers on their so called 3.6 data implementation, furthermore I have never received a notification from sprint telling me that I’m downloading too much, and it’s been 2.5 years.

I couldn't care less if GSM is taking over the world, nor do I care to data roam outside my home country. I don't need to get overcharged for every bit of data.

I walk around with a sprint ppc6700, a crackberry (sim now in my iphone) and a verizon wireless card. So I get to see performance on all 3 networks.
SunnyFL8
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join:2001-02-08

SunnyFL8

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Sprint

Once they decide to go unlimited with there cells service I might change providers considering they have unlimited service on there broadband mobile products.
88615298 (banned)
join:2004-07-28
West Tenness

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Now service my area

until then this crap means nothing.