As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they’re faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills? The company can cut off the computer’s wireless access, but the carrier would still be out a couple of hundred dollars. The buyer would be left with a computer that’s fully usable except for cellular broadband. LM Ericsson, the Swedish company that makes many of the modems that go into laptops, announced Tuesday that its new modem will deal with this issue.
