The findings, from a new US national broadband map show that more than a third of Americans have access to mobile broadband at speeds over 6Mbps. The new US broadband map, developed by the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and in cooperation with the US Federal Communications Commission has revealed that, 36% of…
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Spending on mobile broadband up 40% year on year
A study into mobile broadband usage across Europe has shown a 40% rise on usage from 2009 and the majority of use is from devices smaller than a laptop, with a quarter on smartphones and smart devices. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Mobile Broadband Study 2010 has reported a 40% increase in average monthly spend on mobile…
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Facebook dominates mobile broadband data usage
Social media and social gaming dominate mobile broadband data traffic according to new traffic statistics released by mobile operator Three. But do we really trust the stats – read on for the sorry tale of just how confused some telecomms operators can be. For the first time – to our knowledge – a network has…
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Why mobile needs a “broadband moment”
One of the key problems with building the mobile web and mobile apps is the speed at which the data arrives at the phone. What’s the point of building a mobile video website if the user has to wait ten minutes for the video to start? If you were to believe the networks they have…
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Mobile internet users to hit 3.5 billion by 2015
Global mobile broadband users will grow from 500 million today to 3.5 billion by 2015, according to Ericsson’s broadband chief Magnus Ewerbring Magnus Ewerbring said at the Mobile Broadband World 2010 event in London that the rise in mobile broadband had “only just started”, and that the services being used will change radically in the…
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The web is still no faster than a pigeon
This story is not strictly Mobile or Business but it is mobile broadband – in a way – and it amused us greatly, and we know how they feel, sometimes our mobile broadband is so slow you’d have thought it was going via carrier pigeon. A South African business Unlimited IT based in Durban decided…
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Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
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Ofcom to test mobile broadband speeds
The UK telecom regulator, Ofcom has decided to compile its own mobile broadband coverage data maps and has contracted an outside company, Epitiro to analyse the performance of the networks. Ofcom has previously relied on operator provided statistics when compiling its coverage maps, but after the findings in the recently published Communications Market Report which…
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Mobile data use triples in the past year
Mobile data use has tripled in the past year and global mobile data traffic has now hit over 225,000 terabytes per month, with 50 billion mobile devices predicted by 2020. Figures released by Ericsson show that mobile data use has almost tripled in the past 12 months. Global data traffic had reached nearly 225,000 terabytes…
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The UK is one of the cheapest places worldwide for Mobile Broadband
The UK, France, Indonesia amongst the cheapest for Mobile Broadband In a cross-country comparison of mobile data pricing, ABI Research found the UK, France and Indonesia to have among the lowest prices for mobile broadband plans. In Indonesia, a 4 GB data package for the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) costs as low as £10.81 ($17)…
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Mobile Loose Ends
Mobile Loose Ends – Some stories from the last two weeks that appealed to us and we thought were interesting and why. Shopkick get a kick from VCs The Wall Street Journal are finally realising that mobile is taking off and the reason they’re realising is that the VCs are starting to go into a…
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Businesses wasting cash on mobile broadband
A survey by mobile broadband advice site Broadband Genie found that more than half of the visitors to their site did not know how much mobile broadband data they use each month. In many cases, the visitors could be paying hundreds of pounds for data they don’t use. In a survey of more than 1,000…
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Ericsson predict mobile broadband to hit 3.4bn by 2015
According to phone manufacturer Ericsson’s estimates mobile broadband subscriptions are set to hit 3.4 billion subscriptions by 2015 with a colossal 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Ericsson predicts mobile broadband subscriptions to increase at a faster rate than mobile subscriptions with more than 3.4 billion subscribers predicted by 2015 from 360 million in 2009,…
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84% of mobile broadband users suffer connection problems
The latest findings from YouGov’s Dongle Tracker survey found that a huge proportion of users – 84 per cent to be exact – had issues with their connection. Chief among the problems cited was slow speeds, affecting 67 per cent of users. Close to half (49 per cent), had problems with coverage and 45 per…
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Mobile Broadband Investment Set to Soar as HSPA Connections Pass 200 Million
Mobile Broadband hits 200 million users worldwide and operators are set to invest $72 billion in 2010