According to company spokesman, this new technology allows for devices such as a computer monitor, keyboard, mouse - even an HDTV monitor - to be connected to the internet using a cell phone.

“Zamboola has reinvented the PC,” said Michael Harold, Zamboola’s co-founder and CEO. “The only computer Zamboola needs is the one inside the cell phone. Everything else is reduced to a terminal device. By providing a single point of mobile access for all of a person’s computing and media, and that includes what we now call desktop and portable PCs, netbooks, digital tablets and even HDTV set top boxes, Zamboola is the first company in the world to deliver on the promise of quadplay wireless access. The solution is simple. It’s the cell phone.”

This new way of computing has the added benefit of using less energy than other personal computing solutions.
The technology uses less than half the energy of any other desktop, portable PC, netbook or digital tablet solution.

We have not yet witnessed this technology in action quite yet, but you can check on progress and new announcements at www.zamboola.com

Rumors were circulating that AT&T would not be the exclusive provider for the device, but those rumors turned out to be completely false.

AT&T, in fact, WILL be the exclusive 3G provider for the new iPad, as it now is with the extremely popular iPhone.

Could the addition of handling iPad traffic
push the AT&T network to its limit?

Let’s face it, AT&T is not tops in customer satisfaction when it comes to handling heavy data bandwidth from its business (and even consumer) customers.

Did you know that AT&T now has twice as many smartphone users as its nearest competitor?   Since the iPhone was introduced, the company has experienced a 5000% increase in broadband data usage!

Is it any wonder that they want the iPad business too?

AT&T execs must have been anticipating consumer concern over issues of the increased bandwidth needs of the iPad.  The did, in fact, address this topic on their latest quarterly conference call.

John Stankey, president and CEO of AT&T Operations, said on the call: “We’re very pleased to say that one of the 7.2-enabled devices that will have connectivity on our network is Apple’s new iPad…”

Stankey added “we’re really excited about the device, and we work closely with Apple in planning for its connectivity on our network. AT&T is a natural fit for the iPad, given the combination of the ever-improving speed of our 3G network and our robust Wi-Fi capabilities. We have a thorough technical understanding, with a good read on the iPad’s usage requirements and characteristics, and all that is included in our network plans for 2010 in the plans I’m sharing with you this morning.”

So apparently the company IS ready for the onslaught of die hard Apple users firing up their iPads.  The plan is to spend $2 billion dollars in 2010 to keep the 3G network running like a fine Swiss watch.

Our advice is this:

If you are going to purchase the iPad, we suggest you go with the Wi-Fi only version.   AT&T will charge you $30 per month for a 3G plan, but you really don’t need it for use at home, school, or your local Panera Bread.  The last few years has spawned more widespread availability of free Wi-Fi.

Opting out of the $30 per month 3G plan will not only save you a few hundred bucks per year, it will also help save AT&T bandwidth for the rest of us. :)

Submitted by: TelCon Associates

The speed was attained in outdoor tests near the carrier’s research and development laboratory in Yokosuka, Japan, in February this year and is the latest step NTT DoCoMo has taken towards a possible commercial launch of the technology early in the next decade.

Dubbed “Super 3G” by NTT DoCoMo, it is one of a number of systems that is included under the “Long Term Evolution” banner of the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), the standards setting body for 3G cellular systems, said Shuichiro Ichikoshi, a spokesman for NTT DoCoMo in Tokyo.

DoCoMo stared working on Super 3G in July 2006 as a stepping stone technology to bridge the gap between current HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) technology and 4G cellular systems.

The first 3G systems were capable of data transmission at speeds up to 384K bps but can now support downloads in the megabit per second range thanks to HSDPA systems. NTT DoCoMo’s network in Japan currently offers download speeds up to 3.6M bps and from April 1 will support up to 7.2M bps. Such technology is expected to scale up to around 100M bps but there’s a big gap between that point and 4G speeds of 1G bps.

As carriers want to wring out every bit of life possible from cellular networks the commercial launch of LTE should mean that 3G technology is good for a few more years before customers and applications begin demanding faster transmission.

NTT DoCoMo is also looking at 4G systems and has already managed to transmit data at close to 5G bps to a receiver moving at 10 kilometers per hour using 4G technology.

The carrier hopes Super 3G development work will be completed by the end of 2009, said Ichikoshi. That means commercial services, if launched, would begin in 2010 at the earliest.

More details of NTT DoCoMo’s Super 3G tests will be presented at the CTIA Wireless 2008 show that begins in Las Vegas on April 1.