Re: Verizon Wireless Broadband?
cingular and sprint both have competing services I believe.
I have the Verizon broadband access for 1 full year now and love it.
Not quite hi-speed in the major markets. But still pretty fast.
Outside of major markets (on the highway, anywhere you get a cell-phone signal pretty much) it is typically 2x speed of dial-up.
But this is if you are way outside the major markets.
For example, on the map it looks like the entire 1-hour drive from Cincinnati to Dayton (and swinging over to Oxford) would ALL be broadband-access coverage even though you're not really in a city at all.
Anyway, it works great for me. Switched my cell-phone coverage to Verizon too...so broadband-access only costs $59/mth for me (not sure if they still give same discount).
Consider if you travel a lot that many hotels (and airports) are now charging $10/day for hi-speed internet.
So just 4 or 5 days in a hotel or airport and you are already breaking even because of the Verizon access.
Even the non-broadband speed is decent.
Memphis wasn't in the broadband market yet when I first got Verizon and it worked for me pretty well.
Just visited my family in small-town Destin, Fla. and the 2x dial-up speed was still working great for me down there.
highly highly recommended.
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