BroadbandConnect made its debut yesterday in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.

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And yesterday, in an attempt to claw back ground from Verizon Communication's joint wireless venture with Vodafone and Sprint Nextel, Cingular yesterday launched BroadbandConnect--its own high-speed wireless Internet service--in 16 markets.

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And while visions of straight up 10Mbps HSDPA dance in our head, it would appear that Cingular's initial rollout their HSDPA service ( BroadbandConnect) doles out much smaller chunks of bandwidth to its customers.

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