I am currently uploading a 120mb MIR Show video at the whopping WHOPPING average speed of 18.5k per second. Fluck all use that ‘cloud’ is when I’m whizzing away at 18.5k/sec. In fact thinking back about 15 years ago, if I was lucky, I got similar speeds on my 56k modem. I’m using an 8mb [...]
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Vodafone trials 16mbps HSPA+ mobile broadband
Pretty soon you could be surfing the urban jungle via a 16mbps data connection according to the chaps at Vodafone. During some HSPA+ 64QAM technology trials, the Vodafone chaps in Spain managed to achieve 16mbps. But it gets better. They’re planning to trial 21mbsp this quarter using HSPA+ MIMO. Vodafone experts estimate that the technology [...]
** UPDATED ** NokiaWorldWatch: Nokia’s first mobile broadband USB stick – 40 euros ** UPDATED **
Announced this week is Nokia’s first ever mobile broadband USB dongle Crossing both 2.5 and 3G networks its due out soon, with carries to be mentioned in due course. Specifications/Compatible computer operating systems: – 3G: 850/2100MHz GSM:850/900/1800/1900 MHz Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Mac OS 10.4 Mac OS 10.5 Posted by email from MIR [...]
Mobile broadband wireless routers come to T-Mobile
Hitting the stores this week is T-Mobile’s answer to 3′s wireless broadband mobile router, the mouth full that is the Mobile Broadband Share Dock It works the same way as 3′s Huawei D100 Router, only with a less catchy name. The Share Dock plugs into their mobile broadband dongle, then enables surrounding devices to have [...]
O2 to offer 50 day money back guarantee on its mobile broadband
So o2 has currently been behind all the other networks when it came to mobile broadband, however it seems they may have pulled the cat out of the bag. From Mobile Today; O2 is looking to accelerate sales of its mobile broadband by offering a money-back guarantee amid growing consumer uncertainty regarding speeds and coverage [...]
Cheapest mobile broadband package arrives
Remembered the heady days of October the first when Virgin entered the mobile broadband market? Now they’ve only gone and launched the cheapest deal in UK at just a fiver a month. There’s catch, as expected and there always is of course – you need to be on Virgin. New and existing customers on their [...]
Vodafone’s ‘lightyears ahead’ broadband claim found misleading
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”) has taken the hatchet to Vodafone UK’s mobile broadband advertising. The ads typically showed a USB broadband stick looking like a rocket jetting into outerspace, with a strapline explaining that Vodafone’s mobile broadband service is ‘light years ahead’ of the competition. The ad also aimed to point out that [...]
Virgin Mobile has NO business arsing about with Mobile Broadband
I see that Virgin Media/Mobile has launched a Mobile Broadband dongle. They have NO business doing this. No business at all. THIS from a company that charges 0.5 pence per Kb for mobile data to handsets. THIS from a company that still has ‘SEE ABOVE FOR WAP CHARGES‘ on it’s tariff page. WAP charges? Virgin [...]
4 million HSPA converts a month
HSPA is taking over the world. According to the GSM Association, there are now 50 million users on HSPA networks around the globe – a massive leap from last’s year’s figure of 11 million connections. The association reckons that new users will be joining HSPA networks at the rate of around 4 million a month [...]
3 win top UK mobile broadband prize
No surprise, actually, is it? Have a read of this: 3 UK’s Mobile Broadband offering has been named “Best Mobile Broadband†by the UK’s most popular dedicated broadband comparison site, www.top10-broadband.co.uk. The independent site, which claims over a million unique users each month, has given 3 UK the award based on analysis of data captured [...]
Are operators blocking free US mobile broadband?
Over in the US, there’s an interesting plan brewing. The Federal Communications Commission is planning to auction a piece of spectrum off under the proviso that the winner of the auction has to offer a free wireless internet service with part of the spectrum. Operators, it seems, have been dragging their feet and causing delays, [...]
3 has one million mobile broadband users in Europe
Kudos to 3. They led the way, in the UK at least, with the tenner-a-month USB mobile broadband revolution. This shows demand is strong for mobile broadband in all 3’s territories, including the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria… … says the press release I got in this morning. Christian Salbaing, MD of European [...]
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