Category: Mobile Broadband

Wi-Fi hotspots are showing no signs of vanishing even though mobile access speeds are increasing, probably because we are all allowance watching to avoid big bills, so its good news for those who cannot be without an Internet connection no matter where you are.

While far too late to help with current broadband targets, adding extra spectrum in the crucial lower bands in 2022 may help revive 4G in eight years time when it is likely to be as congested as 3G is today.

So only a decade late the Government is waking up to the importance of 2G voice services and now we are waiting on publication of a consultation to let the public and industry have its say on proposals.

Some 1,000 public buildings are set to see free Wi-Fi networks available in them as a result of spending from the SuperConnected Cities scheme.

The Vodafone Sure Signal units have helped many people get their own registered mobiles onto a 3G network in their own homes since 2010 and now Vodafone is launching a larger open solution so others in the area can piggyback on a broadband connection.

While Department of Transport announced plans to improve broadband on trains in 2013 as part of a £1.9bn upgrade, it seems now that the broadband work may just be £90m.

There are those that claim 5G mobile broadband will wipe the floor with all fixed line technologies including full fibre optic but with frequencies of the order of 50 GHz there are likely to be real range problems.

Staying in contact at festivals is almost always a pain as mobile masts become overloaded and a bespoke 4G network with Wi-Fi hotspots hidden in cows should help people check email, message friends and tease friends who did not go.

A three way collaboration is bringing free Wi-Fi to key points of stages one and two as the Tour de France winds through Yorkshire.

Patients staying in hospital can feel cut off from friends and family particularly with the high costs of travel to visit so free WiFi is crucial to helping people stay in touch and keep abreast of what is happening in the outside world.