Based on the description of this product on the Green Packet website, the SONmetro 212A Subscriber Unit, and my conversations with one anonymous reseller, it’s possible that Green Packet might launch 3MBps consumer wireless broadband packages this year. The technology looks very interesting in theory - seems to be mostly immune to line of sight or signal strength/velocity issues. Read this excerpts: “receiving data from tens of different neighbors from different locations per second while driving”, “one can still communicate over 1.5Mbps while traveling at speed up to 300 km/hour“.

So, in theory, you could be downloading some data pretty quickly, and driving above 3 times the local highway limit at the same time. Wow!

As a marketing person and occasional Ah Beng, I imagine a great publicity stunt they could use to launch the service, involving a professional driver, a sports car, some drifting, a series of internal cameras (one pointed at the laptop, more mounted on the car roof and hood), a heavily strapped in laptop user in the back seat, and a nice, empty stretch of road and a live broadcast.

To Green Packet readers (and particularly to Michael Lai): If you use the idea, be sure to give us credit (and we take cash too, haha.) Oh, and I wouldn’t mind being the strapped in laptop user even, if you get both a really good driver and my blood type on file as well…