Sierra Wireless cuts off its dongle, pours cold water on its hotspot

[WiWavelength]

Goodbye, Sierra. Hello, Netgear.

 

The company that coined the term AirCard will make AirCards no more. Sierra Wireless is selling its 3G/4G modem business to NetGear, which take over the manufacture of its line of mobile hotspots, wireless dongles and data cards.

 

http://gigaom.com/20...rnet-of-things/

 

AJ

[dedub]

Ugh, its all down hill from there.

[WiWavelength]

And if you missed it a few days ago, Cisco is selling Linksys to Belkin.

 

AJ

[dedub]

I had good luck with linksys until cisco took over.

 

Netgear bought infrant/readynas a few years ago, came out with some good newer models (then simultaneously fractured the software side, dev team, and the community). The existing readynas board is on lifesupport, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ever suddenly disappeared into the ether, which would be an unfortunate loss for past, present and future customers.

 

From what I understand, about the same happened with their media player devices.

[Rickie546]

I still have my old linksys g and works awesome, have used the cisco brand linksys and they weren't as good.

[digiblur]

Linksys went down quick. Love my Asus routers. And Ubiquiti toys too

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

 

[WiWavelength]

Man, you guys fail to appreciate good headline writing. This thread title was supremely clever.

 

AJ

[lynyrd65]

Man, you guys fail to appreciate good headline writing. This thread title was supremely clever.

 

AJ

 

"At least they didn't cut the tether"

 

Or

 

"Sierra Wireless to become Netgear Mist"

 

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[centermedic]

Man, you guys fail to appreciate good headline writing. This thread title was supremely clever.

 

AJ

Sorry, I no longer reside in the gutter.....hahahahaha. Ok,ok. The title was funny.

[Jamal46409]

R.I.P. Sierra....

[jefbal99]

Man, you guys fail to appreciate good headline writing. This thread title was supremely clever.

 

AJ

 

I think you owe the State of Michigan a new laptop for the one I just spewed my coffee on to...