Nextel gets into the wireless broadband business

Nextel, of all companies, has started offering a wireless broadband Internet service in North Carolina with download speeds of 1.5 Mbps, which is about as fast as a regular cable Internet connection. They also say they're going to sell PC cards so you'll be able to get superfast wireless connections to your laptop anywhere within range. It's not clear when they might roll this out nationwide, but they do say that it would cost them $2 billion to do it, so they're probably just testing it in North Carolina while they decide whether or not to expand.

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