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Home broadband and mobile broadband compete
The competition between mobile broadband and home broadband companies seems to have taken a turn in favor of the home broadband providers. Planned installation of fibre optic cable in what is known as FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) has placed many United Kingdom home broadband providers in a situation where they will soon be offering their customers from 40 to 100 MB download speed.
In comparison, current 3G mobile broadband coverage throughout the UK offers on average just 3MB of speed. Plans for faster wireless internet connections by means of systems such as WiMax seem to have stalled. We have always been proponents of fully Wireless Technology but it seems as if over the air mobile broadband will be slower than expected in making the leap to its fourth generation or 4G speed. Other factors leaning in favor of home broadband over the mobile are the reluctance of United Kingdom mobile broadband companies to lower prices for unlimited mobile broadband usage. Instead these companies seem to prefer collecting by the pound for each gigabyte of download through pay as you go mobile broadband offers.
Now for all of our discussion of home broadband vs. mobile broadband, the true comedy is that all of the providers offering the services are one and the same. Almost every major United Kingdom home broadband provider is also a major seller of mobile broadband.