Back in early December as Verizon began to roll out its next generation LTE mobile broadband network in the United States, they offered customers their first taste of 4G not in a handset but with a USB modem, the LG VL600.
The only problem? It didn’t work on the Mac. That earned our ire at the time, since Verizon had suggested that 4G was what was going to “earn” them the iPhone.
Obviously, 4G wasn’t what brought the iPhone 4 to Verizon — it’s 3G only, just like the AT&T model — but it’s still nice to hear that Verizon intends on fixing the LG VL600 to work with Mac through new drivers, just in time for the sudden onslaught of Apple faithful who will be rushing to the network at the beginning of next month.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
