3 has announced sales of over 1m USB mobile broadband dongles to customers across the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria. This has been due, in no small part, to the very attractive cost vs data propositions they have come up with: Also, a new dongle is now available – the Huawei E160G is…
Orange UK goes EeePC for Mobile Broadband too…
Following on from my post the other day about Vodafone (Portugal) using EeePCs for their new broadband offering, Orange UK are now rolling out the EeePC in mobile broadband packages… The ‘connected laptop’ packages include a cheaper-than-an-iPhone £25-per-month consumer tariff offering the popular Asus Eee PC 900 mini laptop. Users get a dongle with their…
Telstra trialling 4G Mobile Broadband
Telstra and Ericsson are claiming, post-trials, that they will squeeze 21-42Mbps out of the Next-gen network next year – and all this from enhanced-HSPA?? Interestingly, ZDNet looks at the server infrastructure and software that is going in to providing these new blistering speeds – a blade cluster architecture will be used, significantly reducing the floorspace…
Euro Mobile Broadband up to 49m by 2013
Following on from the story I recently wrote about Mobile Broadband being free by 2009, another report (from Berg Insight) has stated that European Mobile broadband usage will reach 49 million people by 2013. Inclusion in Laptops (and I presume sub-notebooks and suchlike) will fuel growth, meaning the gradual inclusion of 3.5G (HSPA) and 4G…
Mobile Broadband will be ‘free’ next year
A Broadband comparison site has claimed that mobile broadband will soon be bundled with standard contracts – and this could occur as early as 2009. If the current rate of price-cutting continues, mobile broadband will soon be perceived as free of charge, according to Top 10 Broadband. Using “fixed line phone + ADSL” packages as…
3UK more than halves price of Prepay 3G-USB dongle
3UK’s 3G-USB dongle can now be bought for £49.99, less than half it’s original price. The dongle war appears to be hotting up, with this being the latest in a series of announcement by the various UK Operators to try and get customers on board with their offering. 3UK’s dongle are made by ZTE and…
Ericsson chief expects 6.5 bn mobile subscriptions by 2013
Chief Exec of Ericsson, Carl-Henric Svanberg, has said he expects the number of mobile subscriptions to hit 6.5bn by 2013. He has also said that he is expecting internet broadband usage to hit about 2.5bn, of which two-thirds would be “mobile broadband”. Of course, there is a link from his predictions to where his company…
UK: Vodafone outreaches mobile broadband network
Vodafone UK is extending it’s HSPA coverage for mobile broadband to 6 new cities – Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. This will give users downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mb/s, with up to 1.8 Mb/s on the uplink. Right now, HSPA is only available in London and major UK airports, so it’s…
Update: BT “ToGO” service launched in UK
Following on from Dusan’s post, BT have released more details on their plan to give their broadband customers smartphones, so that they can capture more of the UK mobile market. The new “BT ToGO” handsets will work on home/public WiFi, and utilise mobile networks when WiFi isn’t available. The two devices were named as the…
UK: O2 goes for SMEs with it’s broadband offering
O2 UK has announced it is launching Business Broadband, along with making their home broadband truly nationwide. As you might know, O2 were later to market with their BBand offering, but, I take that as a sign of making sure things were tested fully, and dare I say it, working consistently (unlike some other notable…