Mobile Broadband is rapidly growing in popularity among broadband users in Australia, and the Telecommunication services providers that offer Mobile Broadband plans. It’s widely anticipated that Mobile Broadband will compete against the likes of Fixed Line Broadband and evolve to the point where it will compete directly against the upcoming 100Mbps broadband speeds found in the Fibre-to-the-Premises National Broadband Network.
Australia’s largest Telecommunication provider ‘Telstra’ have recently released a USB modem capable of mobile broadband speeds up to 21Mbps on the 3G network, and although these speeds are theoretical, the incumbent has indicated that a future upgrade, possibly as early as next year, will produce speeds of up to 42Mbps. At these speeds, Mobile Broadband will compete with existing ADSL and Cable Broadband technology.Â
In Australia alone, there’s almost 2 million mobile broadband subscribers and what’s remarkable about this number is the amount of which mobile broadband users grew in 2008. It’s been estimated that approximately 65 million new mobile broadband subscriptions were taken in the second half of 2008. Not bad for just six months growth.
Fixed Line Broadband such as Cable and ADSL (& Naked DSL) do have a couple attributes over Mobile Broadband, that of less latency and tighter security. However, with constant improvements and the flexible nature of a wireless environment shaping the way for more efficient and enticing Mobile Broadband services together with the potential of 100Mbps Long Term Evolution (LTE) aka 4G technology which is expected to arrive on our shores in 2014, it certainly looks like Mobile Broadband will be the way to go, especially for those in remote and regional areas of Australia.
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