Tag Archives: mobile broadband
Mobile Broadband in Sweden – Still Growing
Last year, I wrote about the explosive growth of mobile broadband in Sweden. According to the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS), which publishes an annual report on the state of the Swedish Telecommunications Market, the number of mobile subscriptions via … Continue reading
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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
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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
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Sony’s New Embedded 3G ‘NetBook’
I guess it was just a matter of time before Sony introduced its ‘netbook’ offering – though it insists that its new Sony Vaio P is not a netbook. Walter Mossberg reviews it on the Journal: I love the look … Continue reading
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Interesting Report on Mobile Broadband Pricing in Europe
Tariff Consultancy has released an interesting new report on Mobile Broadband Pricing – an analysis of current mobile broadband pricing in 33 countries across Eastern and Western Europe. There are some interesting, yet not completely surprising, findings from the report: The … Continue reading
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iPhone – Platform for the Masses?
Conventional wisdom is that iPhone users are a gadget-loving, tech-savvy and well-off bunch. In fact, results from a quantitative study of US 2G iPhone US users conducted by Rubicon in March 2008 revealed that the former have a median annual … Continue reading
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USB Dongle – Fashion Accessory?
You know USB dongles have become mainstream when operators start selling different color skins to go with them. H3G in Sweden (also called Tre) is positioning their mobile broadband as the “most stylish broadband” in addition to being the fastest! … Continue reading
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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
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Entry of White-Label Mobile Broadband Service
I guess it was just a matter of time before white-label mobile broadband service offerings entered the mobile data lexicon. Spanish PC manufacturer AIRIS has recently concluded a promotion offering a mobile broadband laptop bundle with no specific operator branding. The … Continue reading
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