Verizon's EV-DO and "Tethering" to Your PC of Choice

Posted Feb 5th 2006 5:08PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Bluetooth, How-to, Applications

It looks like Verizon is *finally* (finally!) giving in to its customer's demands and will officially allow you to use your new and shiny EV-DO handset as a wireless modem for your laptop computer or PDA. The strange this is that Verizon's stance is that this is only available is you use a USB cable to your phone (no mention of Bluetooth). Of course, Verizon's stance on Bluetooth has been sketchy and sticky in the past (remember the Motorola V710 fiasco and class-action lawsuit?).

This bodes well for those road warriors who want to be able and use broadband-type speeds anywhere they have Verizon coverage (with EV-DO support, of course). This has to be a rather large market of business professionals and it is good to see Verizon wising up to demand. So, if you have a dead spot in the airport you're at - with WiFi - you can plop out your Verizon phone and keep on truckin'. Or surfin'.

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1. Thanks to Verizon's new 3G EV-DO network, you can now view on-demand streaming video clips on select handsets over the carrier's V Cast service.

Posted at 3:19AM on Feb 6th 2006 by Proc

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