Mobiles reviews - mobile broadband

O2 bundles mobile and home broadband

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:28:57 +0000

O2 has begun offering a joint mobile and fixed broadband deal for customers. Those that sign up to get O2 Mobile Broadband for £20/month (which includes 3GB of data and unlimited WiFi) will get the standard home broadband package free for a year. This a clever move by O2, as it adds real value for the [...]

3 does 1m mobile broadband customers, announces new dongle

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:46:22 +0000

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 [...]

Euro Mobile Broadband up to 49m by 2013

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:44:46 +0000

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) [...]

Alltel rolling out EVDO Rev. A data network

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:46:40 +0000

Despite being Verizon's next big meal, Alltel has announced that it too will be rolling out an EVDO Rev. A data network to give data-hungry customers some high-speed wireless data as they wait for LTE to get real. The EVDO Rev. A network will give Alltel's data speeds a boost from 400-700Kbps to 600Kbps-1.4Mbps on the [...]

AT&T rolls out free AT&T WiFi HotSpot service for AT&T LaptopConnect mobile broadband customers

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:20:00 +0000

While iPhone owners will just have to keep waiting for AT&T to get its ducks in line and decide when, exactly, they want to officially offer iPhone customers a free ride on AT&T's WiFi HotSpot locations in the US, AT&T LaptopConnect mobile broadband customers can now enjoy free access to all AT&T WiFi HotSpot locations [...]

3UK more than halves price of Prepay 3G-USB dongle

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:30:38 +0000

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

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:09:24 +0000

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 comes [...]

UK: Vodafone outreaches mobile broadband network

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:57:23 +0000

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 [...]

Update: BT "ToGO" service launched in UK

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:53:59 +0000

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 S620 [...]

UK: O2 goes for SMEs with it's broadband offering

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:18:32 +0000

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 [...]

Moto demos first public WiMAX hand-off in Asia-Pac

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:25:12 +0000

Singapore: Motorola recently demonstrated the first handoffs between public WiMAX access points (at the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2008). The demo was enabled through a mobile WiMAX network set up at Motorola's facility in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. Attendees were able to experience various mobile applications including video conferencing, web browsing and mobile streaming while moving [...]

Hong Kong: SmarTone chooses Ericsson for HSPA

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:14:11 +0000

Hong Kong: Ericsson has been selected as sole supplier for mutimedia service network upgrades by SmarTone-Vodafone. Ericsson will supply a HSPA-enabled radio access network, including MBMS, and a fully IP-based core network (including IMS). The deal will also include all related Professional Services (PS) work. Ericsson is already the sole supplier of SmarTone-Vodafone’s core and radio [...]

Ericsson's Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl proclaims downfall of WiFi

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:08:57 +0000

Does anyone even use public telephones anymore? I don't even use fixed landlines anymore. With the pace of development in the wireless landscape, it makes sense that wireless broadband solutions could sound the death knoll for WiFi hotspots. And, to make that notion all the more plausible, Ericsson's Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl proclaimed during his [...]

UK: Sunday Newspapers: News of the World: Gadgets

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:57:41 +0000

So today I grabbed a bunch of Sunday Newspapers, whilst out walking our little one. On returning home, the one that had the most interesting selection of Mobile News was the News of the World. Below, a summary of some of the interesting ones in the Gadgets section: Vodafone's new HSPA USB Modem, able to run [...]