AT&T to Try Selling Netbooks

By Allen Tsai | Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:59 pm

AT&T, the nation's largest telecommunications company, plans to go beyond mobile phones and test selling laptops in its stores in Atlanta and Philadelphia.

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Dallas, Texas-based AT&T is looking for ways to expand into other gadgets as the mobile industry is starting to saturate.

The company will subsidize the price of a laptop when a customer signs a two-year contract -- just as it does with mobile phones.

In Atlanta, consumers will be able to buy a "netbook" -- a scaled-down version of a laptop -- for $50 if they sign up for home and wireless broadband service plans totaling at least $60 per month.

That offer is being tested only in Atlanta -- AT&T doesn't sell home broadband service in the Philadelphia area.

For those signing up for wireless broadband only, the netbook costs $100.

AT&T and RadioShack introduced a netbook that runs on the carrier's third-generation network in December.

Verizon Wireless also announced plans to subsidize laptops.

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