10:28 pm - August 22nd, 2008 by Phil
The marketeers efforts to capture the 40% of households that don’t have broadband continue, using the lure of a "free" (ie inclusive) laptop tied in with a very long contract term on 3G mobile broadband (or in some cases fixed line broadband). This is fairly clever in that someone without a
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02:16 pm - August 1st, 2008 by Sam
O2 has kicked off a mobile broadband promotions war which will dominate broadband deals this summer and early autumn.
Until the end of October customers taking out its mobile broadband product for £20 per month will now get free home broadband for a year as long as they live with the O2 Home Broadband Network, which
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05:46 pm - July 30th, 2008 by Sam
Mobile broadband is set to go from strength to strength but you can pretty much write off Wi-Max networks, according to the latest research from telecommunications researchers at Analysys Mason.
Its latest report predicts that mobile broadband use will grow rapidly along the same lines as we see today with subscribers using a mixture of 3G
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09:49 am - July 24th, 2008 by Sam
Late adopters are going to treble mobile broadband penetration over the next five years as more than one in three of net newcomers foregoes a fixed line contract in favour of a go-anywhere broadband dongle.
The latest findings from technology researchers at Forrester suggests that of the 48m Europeans that are expected to sign up for
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09:40 pm - July 2nd, 2008 by Sam
There’s a lot of talk of WiMax currently, largely originating from company PR departments hoping to recover their development costs or sell lots of WiMax chips and devices. But what does it offer to the average broadband user ?
To be honest, not a lot right now. You may have heard that WiMax has a range
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