Dell plans to offer built-in Cingular networking

According to Dell, it will be offering a high speed networking alternative on some of its notebooks by the 1st quarter of 2006. Specifically , it will be Cingular’s High-Speed Downlink Packet Access network (HSDPA), which is a 3G network. Cingular should have up to 20 markets available with a HSDPA connection by the end of this year and into most major U.S. markets by the end of 2006. This option will complement its current agreement with Verizon (using Verizon Wireless’ Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) broadband network). For more details, go here.