With all sorts of companies vying for your mobile broadband dollar and all sorts of claims being bandied about, it may be tough to get down to brass tacks and figure out exactly what the heck is going on.

It is, though, a revolution.

With new technologies popping up daily and the mobile broadband group bubbling forth like a groundswell, it’s tough to sort out fact from fiction. It’s easy to throw your hands up in defeat but it’s more practical to dig your heels in and try to decipher the code that is your mobile broadband sphinx.

Leading the charge among popular mobile broadband companies is Sprint. With their data access card and smug commercials pitting the Cingular guy against the Sprint guy (“Buffalo” “I’m sorry, what?”) Not that I’ve got any leaning towards Cingular but the commercials leaning and message were both very obvious.

T-mobile is another mobile broadband company with which I’m very familiar; I’ve been a Hot Spot customer for years and years now so I’ll say with some certainty, if you live near a Starbucks and you’re prepared to make the trek down to one of their Hot Spot locations; basically sell your soul to the coffee pot; then I say go for it! If you’re in a big city like me, you can choose a location to suit your mood. I’ve even got my choices for middle of the night runs to the coffee clinic where I can access T-mobile technology. At an accredited “Hot Spot” location, be they Starbucks, Borders, Kinko’s or others, T-mobile’s never failed me.

Verizon is another mobile broadband company that’s popped up in bigger cities and has struck pay dirt with its urbane urban crowd. It’s so easy to forget that all these companies used to be just telephone services; now they’re so much more, with streaming video, cellular, faxes, audio downloads on your high speed connection you’d think this was some new thing, but really it all started with phones. Funny, huh?

Mobile broadband cards are different and require you to be serviced by whatever area or city you’re in. If you’re living in an apartment building or office area where there is a pirate able linksys signal, you might as well pick it up. I’ve never been infected from any random signal; whether they are linksys, belkin, or any other.

Mobile broadband is the wave of the future. As we all move in lockstep with one another, all being herded by the measures of public consciousness into a better world where there are less wires, we should all stand up and shot that our desires will not be denied! And the credo of the wireless broadband movement should be as such!