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A Wireless Hotspot For Your Car — Why Not?

Posted by timothy on from the not-wijacking-just-drafting dept.

nk497 writes "UK mobile operator 3 has unveiled a wireless hotspot for cars. It's essentially a repackaged version of their MiFi wireless router, which lets users create their own wireless hotspot using the 3G network. While drivers will hopefully steer away from using the web at the wheel, 3 predicts the mobile hotspot will let passengers entertain themselves as well as offer a hookup to email, music and traffic data."

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  1. Car hotspot? by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not 'Why not?', but rather 'Why?'

    1. Re:Car hotspot? by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you've got people at your beach party asking where they can go to check their email, you're doing it wrong.

    2. Re:Car hotspot? by zach_the_lizard · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Then the carrier is probably going to be angry that they went over the unadvertised bandwidth caps, charge them more, and cut them off.

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      SSC
    3. Re:Car hotspot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why you ask?

      Because I'm rarely outside of wifi distance from my or my wife's car.
      Because my car has it's own battery and backup generator.
      Because I want to access my car's door locks, alarm system, etc.. directly without paying a 3rd party like On-Star.
      Because I want to connect my car to my home automation for too many new capabilities to list.

      But most importantly.... Because it's cool!

  2. Sign me up by quantumplacet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    will work great with this:
    http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp/B000IZGIA8/ref=pd_sim_auto_1