Verizon confirms plans to sell Netbooks
AT&T already sells this Acer Netbook with service through RadioShack. What will its chief rival bring to the Netbook marketplace?
(Credit: RadioShack)Verizon Wireless has confirmed earlier reports that it's ready to enter the Netbook market. Spokeswoman Brenda Raney, who was quoted to a similar effect in an Internetnews.com story Friday, said Saturday that the plan is for the company to start selling 3G-enabled Netbooks by the end of the second quarter, or by June.
Unfortunately, Raney could offer little else in the way of details regarding pricing or potential PC partners. Crave's Erica Ogg suggested Dell would be an obvious partnering candidate. Dell already has a relationship with Verizon parent company Vodafone, which has sold Dell Netbooks in Europe since September 2008. However, a similar rumor floated around the Web last week regarding HP hooking up with Verizon.
Verizon's chief rival, AT&T, already sells Acer Netbooks for $99 with service through RadioShack, and also sells Dell Mini Inspirons through the wireless provider's Web site.
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A) Beneficial to some consumers
B) Would mean that Apple would need to make a cheap product.
Besides, do you really want an $899 dollar netbook? (Prices guestimate based on the fact the iPhone is $599 out of contract... $599... means the Pc needs to be 300 dollars more expensive!)
Thanks Verizon I can now have my cake and eat it too.
have everyone and their uncle, use it as the primary internet service. They need fiber to ever tower, and that simply is not going to happen anytime soon, if it's true verizon has fiber to their towers they may push at&T but I don't think they will for other capacity reason. If you need more capacity you need to look at sprint or T-mobile, but then their coverage sucks. So I think verizon will just play keep up with the Jones, I would be impressed if they made an agresive move in this area.
- by sythara March 30, 2009 8:07 AM PDT
- People will still buy them.
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(19 Comments)Now if Apple markets a netbook thats reasonably priced that had 5GB limit, people will line up a week in advance outside the store to buy one.