Kill Pill for Subsidized Netbooks

Posted on Apr 1, 09 01:21 PM PDT

Not actual netbook with Kill Pill

In many countries, wireless carriers are subsidizing Netbooks that customers can get for free or for very cheap in exchange of subscribing to a data plan. LM Ericsson AB, the company that makes the 3G modem for many Netbooks has integrated a Kill Pill or Kill Switch that would allow the carrier to disable the computer remotely - until the customer has paid his bill, obviously.

“We call it a ‘kill pill,’” (Mats Norin, Ericsson’s vice president of mobile broadband modules)

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