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 (LTE) technologies. The report does also say that mobile connectivity will still take second place to home-based (fixed) connectivity - presumably as there will always be that gap between evolving fixed line speeds and those mobile - currently sitting at about a 10x ratio I reckon… [Via: Smartbrief ] --- Related Articles at IntoMobile:

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