As part of the T-Mobile USA Partners with One Laptop per Child, each laptop came with a year’s subscription to T-Mobile. Jack wasn’t even aware of this until I pointed it out. This morning, I activated my account. The first floor of the building I work in has a Starbucks, and the signal of the hotspot is as strong as the signal for our own router, so I took the little green machine in for testing. It passed the test with flying colors, and the only reason I am posting this at home instead of at work is I worked through my lunch half hour.
I imagine I will use the OLPC mainly as a mobile web browser and e-book reader, so it is nice to have a year’s worth of T-Mobile.