Best Buy recently confirmed on that it is killing off Connect, the company’s private label mobile broadband service launched in 2010. The service will “suspend operations” on June 1, and existing customers will be given the opportunity, where possible, to transfer their service to a different mobile broadband provider or given a gift card to purchase a new broadband device.
Best Buy had managed to sign up 11,000 customers but decided having its own brand of mobile broadband didn’t fit with its newly re-evaluated priorities. Best Buy sold prepaid USB dongles and hotspots as well as mobile-connected laptops.
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