SIM card dashboard brings broadband to the car

The explosive growth of mobile broadband has been due to the popularity of 3G enabled devices such as phones and notebooks but now the technology has a new domain to rule: the car. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Qualcomm all exhibited different flavors of Internet-connected cars at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, showing the capabilities for not just consumers but the automobile industry too.