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4 Section 1A: Introducing the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card
Your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card
The Sierra Wireless AirCard® 595 PC Card is a dual-band wireless PC Card for
cellular and PCS networks. It enhances the functionality of your mobile computing
devices by adding wireless data.
This card allows you to do the following (subject to feature availability), without
using a landline phone or network:
ⅷ Connect to the Internet, VPN, and corporate networks
ⅷ Send and receive email
Your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card fits into a Type II PC Card slot (available on
most notebook PCs).
CDMA Networks
The Sprint Mobile Broadband Card operates over a type of wireless network called
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access).
To use the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card, you need an account that gives you
access to the CDMA network. Some features described in this manual may not be
available with your account. For details of the services and accounts available,
contact Sprint (page 27).
There are CDMA networks that operate in the frequency bands supported by
the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card throughout North America and parts of Latin
America, Asia, and New Zealand. However, each service provider operates a
network that covers a limited geographical area within the overall CDMA coverage
area.
The fee for service is usually higher when you are roaming (connecting to a
network other than Sprint).
Sprint has “roaming” agreements with other service providers, so that you can get
service outside of the coverage area of the Sprint PCS Vision® network. For
example, assuming you live in Seattle and travel frequently to Vancouver, you can
obtain an account with a service provider in Seattle that has a roaming agreement
with a service provider in Vancouver. You would then have local service in Seattle,
and roaming service in Vancouver. (There may be additional charges for roaming
service.)