{"id":547645,"date":"2006-01-05T08:57:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T08:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547645-lenovo-ibm-plans-3g-hsdpa-thinkpad-laptops.html"},"modified":"2006-01-05T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T08:57:17","slug":"lenovo-ibm-plans-3g-hsdpa-thinkpad-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547645-lenovo-ibm-plans-3g-hsdpa-thinkpad-laptops.html","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo\/IBM Plans 3G-HSDPA ThinkPad Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">ThinkPad users will have built-in, immediate high-speed Internet access via the Cingular BroadbandConnect service without needing a separate PC card or additional hardware.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Through this agreement, ThinkPad notebooks will be preconfigured for BroadbandConnect, which delivers average mobile data connections between 400- 700Kbps on the downlink and bursts to more than a megabit per second using Cingular&#8217;s third-generation (3G) network based on UMTS\/HSDPA technology. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Cingular-enabled ThinkPad notebooks are expected to be available beginning in the second quarter of this year.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Cingular is working closely with Lenovo from a research and development standpoint to wirelessly enable its products with a technology that is based on a global 3G standard. We look forward to jointly offering to Lenovo notebook customers wireless broadband access on both a domestic and an international scale.&quot; Said Jeff Bradley from Cingular Wireless.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Cingular&#8217;s 3G network infrastructure is based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology, a global standard for 3G wireless services that are already offered by 95 commercial networks in 45 countries, with an additional 67 UMTS networks in deployment, planned or licensed.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In areas where UMTS\/HSDPA is not available, ThinkPad owners will be able to use their notebooks seamlessly on an EDGE service.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=34946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo and Cingular Wireless today announced plans to integrate 3G and HSDPA technologies from Cingular in upcoming versions of ThinkPad notebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}