Sprint to Lease Wireless Connectivity to Gadget Makers
Telecom services provider Sprint are hoping to add wireless cellular connectivity to all your favourite gadgets, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
With this type of technology you could browse for restaurants on your GPS navigator or upload pictures directly from the camera to Flickr at anytime and any place.
Vice president of strategy for analytics firm Interpret, Michael Gartenberg says: ‘Sprint understands that we are getting to a point where almost every digital device would want to be connected to a fast ubiquitous network. Wi-Fi isn’t everywhere and consumers want the assurance of ubiquitous connectivity that wide area networks can offer.’
Through its partnership with Amazon, Sprint has already taken the first step towards creating this model.
Amazon has started off the first version of its e-book reader Kindle with Sprint’s wireless connectivity to help users download e-books over the air.
This kind of wireless capability is something other gadget makers are likely to jump at, Sprint is already in talks with many different gadget companies!
Gartenberg adds: ‘More and more we are going to see this become attractive to all sorts of vendors, especially if they can integrate it at a low cost.’


















