T-Mobile's CEO said that the company would offer an integrated Wi-Fi/cell data service during the first quarter: The company will sell data cards for laptop users who will be connected to the highest speed network available. T-Mobile is in the best position among cellular players in the U.S. to make such an offering since it owns and operates thousand of hotspots. It will be interesting to see how such a combined offering takes off and how the other operators react. Such a service makes less sense to cell operators that don't own the hotspots because they will earn less from handing customers off of their wide area networks.
