Netgear's MBR814 Flash-OFDM Mobile Router

It's not entirely the same as some of the EV-DO WiFi routers we've seen, but Netgear's MBR814 is kinda close in concept, and so far it's among the first commercial consumer-available WiFi routers we've seen featuring a wireless broadband backhaul. Granted, the technology is Flarion's FLASH-OFDM, so uplink coverage is extremely limited in the states (last we heard Nextel was toying around with it), but Qualcomm's Flarion acquisition earlier this month will ensure that there are at least a few places abroad this thing'll be useful for awhile in.

[Via WiMaxNetNews]

[Rob @ Dec 19th 2005 1:05AM]

To my knowledge Flarion doesn't have any US coverage. The Nextel trial ended as soon as talks between Sprint and Nextel began. I'm waiting for GSM carriers like Cingular and T-Mobile to buy into this b/c they pretty much don't have any 3G technology in place to compete against EV-DO.

[Simon @ Dec 19th 2005 1:05AM]

Does anyone know if a router is made that takes pcmcia cards for EVDO, EDGE, UMTS. A router that might have 2 slots so you could combine the bandwidth of 2 cards and broadcast it via wifi? Just wondering, I could use one.