Saturday, December 25, 2010

T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot shows up in FCC courtesy of ZTE

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Remember those rumors earlier this week that T-Mobile was finally
getting ready to launch a mobile hotspot or two? Seeing how Verizon,
AT&T, and Sprint have all done it, it certainly makes sense --
especially with this newfangled 21Mbps HSPA+ network T-Mobile's got
going on -- and sure enough, we've now got concrete evidence of a unit
in the FCC's database. The MF61 from Chinese manufacturer ZTE is
pretty clearly labeled "T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot" inside... so yeah,
there's your smoking gun. Confidentiality prevents us from seeing the
user's manual or a photo of the thing, but from what little we can
see, looks like we'll end up with a rounded unit not unlike the
variant of the Novatel MiFi on AT&T and a number of European
carriers. Really, though, doesn't matter what it looks like -- as long
as it fits in a pocket and blasts high-speed data to a handful of WiFi
connected devices of our choosing, that's all we need.

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