Stargrams Communications Network

Do you enjoy using WiFi but hate the confinement that it comes with? Mobile broadband is quickly becoming a better, more accessible alternative to WiFi, offering DSL bandwidth speeds to customers through their laptops, netbooks, mobile phones and PDAs. WiFi is quickly losing its edge due to the restraints that comes with it. The problem with WiFi is that if you want to connect, then you must be in a WiFi hotspot and, crucially, you must be stationary. You could say that a WiFi connection is similar to a cordless telephone, whereas mobile broadband is like the mobile telephone, enabling fast internet access, anywhere. The recent improvements in mobile broadband technology has meant that businesses can communicate with their employees and customers much more efficiently and effectively that ever before, changing the business environment quite drastically. Wireless broadband is shaping the business world.

Mobile broadband uses the same technology as mobile phones, through radio waves and frequencies. The way mobile phones work is by sending and receiving audio data through the telephone masts. Mobile broadband works in almost the same way, though the data that is transferred contains packets of web pages, emails, audio and video data; all sent and received through the telecommunications towers.

Since the introduction of mobile broadband, technology has progressed quire rapidly, below is a chronological list of the improving formats:

-2.5g, or EDGE as it is more widely known, was the first form of mobile broadband, though take up was low as the packet transfer speeds were so low.

-After EDGE came 3g or UMTS. 3g was a little quicker and became a decent alternative if there were no WiFi hotspots available.

-HSDPA was the next incarnation of mobile broadband which offered slightly increased speeds over WiFi.

-The latest standard is HSUPA. HSUPA can give users mobile broadband speeds almost equal to WiFi and has a good coverage ratio.

In the not too distant future is 4g, also known as WIMAX. It is reported that WIMAX will offer much faster speeds than is currently available through most WiFi connections also combined with a wide network coverage ratio. With the constantly improving mobile internet access speeds, accessibility to the internet is increasing non-stop. In ten years we could begin to see a reduction in the number of people signing up to cable DSL, instead turning to companies offering mobile broadband connections. It would be possible to have just one internet service provider that you could access from anywhere in the world, on any type of device, from PCs to consoles to PDAs.