1. A method of manufacturing a user equipment comprising a wireless modem, the method comprising: producing a processor for executing wireless modem code to operate the processor as a wireless modem, the processor having a writeable, non-volatile memory for storing the wireless modem code but being produced with at least a substantive portion of said wireless modem code not installed on said memory or otherwise, thus rendering the processor inoperative as a wireless modem; supplying the processor to a producer of a user equipment, still without at least said substantive portion of wireless modem code installed; assembling the processor into the user equipment, still without at least said substantive portion of wireless modem code installed; supplying the user equipment to an end-user, still without at least said substantive portion of wireless modem code installed; receiving an indication from the end-user requesting activation of the user equipment as a wireless modem; and in response to said indication, distributing at least said substantive portion of wireless modem code to the end-user for installation on the memory of said processor.