T-Mobile HotSpot service, in over 1,800 locations, including Starbucks, Borders bookstores and cafes, airports and airline clubs, is adding American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines to its ‘Wi-Fi’ menagerie.
The partnerships between T-Mobile and American, Delta and United is build upon T-Mobile’s existing service in more than 40 airport locations across the country. T-Mobile will use T-1 backbones which can accommodate streaming video and multi-media conferencing. T-Mobile’s AirCard 750 is a GPRS PC Card that provides 20-40kbps over T-Mobile’s GSM network.
T-Mobile’s $200 Sidekick uses GPRS for messaging (and voice) while their $550 PocketPC/Phone, which also uses GPRS, has an SD slot. It might use a 802.11b SyChip for “hot spot” access next year. Whether T-Mobile plans to take voice indoors using RadioFrame’s software defined “blades” is still unclear.
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