Julio Garcia

New Purchase: Verizon Wireless EVDO Card

Call me crazy or loopy but I recently purchased a Verion Wireless broadband wireless card. Why? To increase productivity. Now instead of sitting around doing nothing on my computer at home, I can sit around doing nothing anywhere. OK, seriously, reasons why I purchased this (I get the lower monthly charge since I already have a Verizon voice plan);

1. Productive anywhere. At Starbucks, without having to pay for their WiFi service. In the car traveling to Sacramento or Monterey or Tahoe or wherever. Maybe even in the coming months while driving around looking at potential property to buy. Scoble sold me on this point while reading his blog.
2. To us se in places that don’t have WiFi or allow WiFi access, such as my place of employment, or conferences, or area restaurants, coffee shops, or even parks.
3. *ahem*… SlingBox! ’nuff said

Think about it this way, when I need to go anywhere with my computer, I don’t need to worry about finding a free WiFi connection, the security on said connection, and losing that connection when I move to another spot. Instead I can bring my computer along wherever I go and be more connected, but worry less about what is going on. It is sort of like having a cell phone and being more connected to everyone but having to worry less about missing an important call.

This option isn’t perfect but it is far better than the other options available.