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 unrealistic ‘up to’ speed claims have given the public an unrealistic expectation [...]
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September 26, 2008
3G Embedded Netbooks – Killer Product?
The relative success of Asus Eee PC has created a new product category – netbooks, also called Mobile Internet Devices (MID) or Ultra-Low Cost PCs (ULPCs). Never to shy away from new product hype, ABI research has promptly come out with a forecast calling for over 200 million of these little fellas by 2013. A quick note [...]
September 18, 2008
LTE – Loooong Term Evolution?
LTE (the GSMA-adopted roadmap to 4G for GSM/UMTS carriers) has been getting a lot of attention of late. Verizon Wireless plans to begin network deployment in 2009 (using their newly acquired 700MHz spectrum) with full network deployment in 2010 and beyond. AT&T has also announced LTE rollout plans in 2012. Vodafone is also making the [...]
September 5, 2008
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 model is not new – Carphone Warehouse in UK has been giving away free laptops [...]
