Lenovo and Cingular Wireless today announced that the ThinkPad T60 notebook, the first Lenovo PC in the U.S. to feature built-in Cingular UMTS/HSDPA-based technology, is now available to business users across America.

BroadbandConnect uses UMTS/HSDPA technology -- the global standard and natural 3G evolutionary path for GSM providers. UMTS services are already offered by 95 commercial networks in 45 countries, with an additional 67 UMTS networks in deployment, planned or licensed. In the U.S., it provides average download speeds between 400-700 kilobits per second (kbps), with bursts to more than one megabit per second (mbps).

The notebooks will ship with Cingular Communication Manager pre-loaded. Cingular Communication Manager is an easy-to-use software package that allows users to effortlessly establish connections with Cingular's BroadbandConnect and EDGE services from their notebooks.

Customers also now can sign-up for Cingular Data Connect international plans. These offer two international wireless data monthly usage plans -- a North American plan ($109.99 for 100MB) for travel within Canada and Mexico and an Overseas plan ($139.99 for 100MB) -- both include unlimited domestic usage on Cingular's domestic data networks. The Overseas plan provides access in more than two dozen countries, with service offered in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain and other major areas in Asia and Europe.