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Mobile Broadband Showing Cracks?
According to the latest data from the UK broadband comparison website Broadband Genie, only around one in ten (11 per cent) mobile broadband users are satisfied with the speed of their mobile broadband. The data claims that exaggerated advertising and … Continue reading
Filed under mobile broadband
Is Mobile Broadband Profitable?
The consensus opinion is certainly that mobile broadband is not a profitable business (yet) in Western Europe (especially in countries like UK) where mobile broadband prices are trending lower than fixed broadband prices. I have always wanted to do a … Continue reading
Filed under fixed broadband, mobile broadband
Verizon Wireless DayPass – Xohm’s Selling Points Weaken!
One of the supposedly big selling points of Xohm – Sprint Nextel (now Clearwire) – WIMAX service was the availability of flexible pricing models that does not tie the customer for an entire month. For example, it looks like they … Continue reading
Filed under mobile broadband
3G Routers – Will It Accelerate Fixed Broadband Replacement?
I have been commenting quite regularly in this blog about how mobile broadband (based on USB dongles and modems) is increasingly being used by mobile-only operators (those without fixed assets) to accelerate the replacement of fixed broadband, primarily in Europe. The … Continue reading
Filed under 3G Router, fixed broadband, mobile broadband
Can Mobile Operators Sell Laptops?
At the recent Citigroup Technology Conference, Dell’s CEO, Michael Dell indicated that the strategy for selling the company’s ‘netbooks’ would be via the wireless network operators – the former would be subsidized to consumers along with 3G service. Actually, this … Continue reading
Filed under HSPA, mobile broadband, netbooks
