AT&T Selling Netbooks Like Mobile Phones

Do you know that Netbooks are now being sold like mobile phones? Netbooks are less powerful laptops

that are smaller, lightweight and used primarily for surfing the Internet wherever you are.



At a RadioShack store in San Jose last weekend you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook

" computer for free if you signed up a 2-year contract ($60 per month, plus activation fee) for mobile Internet service from AT&T. The promotion ended today.

Verizon is also offering a similar deal, hoping that customers will commit to paying $1,000 or more over the next 2 years, while paying for megabytes of data they send and receive on their netbooks, similar to paying for minutes of talk time on their mobile phone.