Vin Crosbie, of Digital Deliverance, has been seriously following and using mobile data solutions for years. His consultancy generates revenue telling news operations how to exploit mobile computing and communications. He travels a lot himself. He takes this stuff really seriously.
So when he says road warriors can ditch their laptops, I believe it. Now I only wish he'd talked about who he buys cellular service from. I'll ping him and see if I get a response.
Update. Vin did get back to me. I think I'm cool quoting his e-mail, but if not I'm sure I'll hear about it and end up retracting it.
Like most Americans, I used the domestic U.S. carriers, which operate
CDMA or TDMA networks. But I got tired of having an inoperable cell
phone whenever I traveled while traveling outside North America. So, I
switched to T-Mobile, shortly after it had bought VoiceStream in 2000.
-- Vin Crosbie