Mobile broadband is the latest discovery in the internet world which is more and more looking like it the turning point to the development of high speed internet. So far, high speed connection has been supplied on a normal telephone line, Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line connection, that brings internet access to your pc via an ADSL modem. Wi-Fi broad-band is more and more famous, whereby the high speed modem is attached to the personal computer via a wireless intranet, and as a consequence internet surfers are now cleaning their homes of ADSL cables. But mobile broadband will take internet connections one step further and offering another innovative idea in the developing of broadband; a broadband line nearly anywhere without the use of a telephone landline cable.
The prospect of connecting to the internet with a broadband speed anywhere is surely an interesting concept to potential internet users, like those that often use internet with their computers away from home. Business people who travel for work are potential target for mobile broadband because they will surely enjoy the great opportunity of not having to look for a wi-fi spot for a quite reliable connection. Mobile broad band will go further than that, and because prices start to decrease and internet connection lines become faster we will witness a great number of high speed internet customers applying for mobile high speed internet.
Mobile high speed internet works by connecting a portable modem to a personal computer, which is called a ‘dongle’, from where a PC terminal is able to use the mobile broad band connection the clients have acquired. Telecom companies are now selling mobile high speed connection deals and coverage of the networks, which is well known as 3G networks, which is more than 90% of England.
Speed has been an important issue with any broad-band line and mobile broad-band telecoms initially struggled to convince users that any mobile high speed internet could match up with conventional, landline-based high speed broadband. Connection speeds are getting better, however, with Vodafone reporting mobile broadband lines as fast as 7 mb, which is in line with some of the fastest landline broad-band. Most of the western countries, including Great Britain, are planning to finance with huge amount of money in fibre optic cable networks, in order speed up high speed connection line to up to 100 mb.
In New Zealand, however, a leading telecom provider has reported that mobile broadband networks are set to increase fast over the coming years and they have forecasted that mobile broad band will deliver connections of up to 100mb by 2011, exactly the year the UK’s fibre optic network is to be finished. This could create an important shift in industry thinking, with the discovery of an efficient super fast mobile broad band network with serious advantages over the laying of thousands of kilometers of fibre optic cables, without mentioning the practical point of view.