Mobile broadband doesn’t live upto expectations
Data from Broadband Genie, a broadband comparison site, says that only 11% of users of mobile broadband are happy with the speeds that they are getting from their connections. While nearly a quarter were not decided, nearly two – thirds of people said that they felt their connection wasn’t fast enough.
Broadband Genie also mentioned that they are constantly getting complaints from mobile broadband customers about the 3G broadband service and with more and more people subscribing to these services, the level of complaints is bound to constantly increase.
The editor of Broadband Genie, Chris Marling, hoped that this unbelievable figure would get the attention of mobile broadband ISPs and make them think more about the services that they are providing. He felt that they have been selling too many connections without increasing the capacity as such, something that is bound to come and haunt them.
The perception among the public, Marling continued, of mobile broadband is that it is a service which has stability and speed that is comparable with that of fixed – line broadband, which isn’t really the case – and may not be so in the short – term, at least. He continues by saying that exaggerated advertising, as well as false claims of high ‘upto’ speeds have ensured that the public have a false good impression of mobile broadband that the service, in all reality, cannot possibly hope to provide.
The industry, he said, has to put in more effort in order to educate the customers more about the disadvantages of mobile broadband as well so the members of the general public are capable of making proper decisions with regard to whether mobile broadband is the way to go for them or whether they would be better off making use of fixed line broadband services, which are, in reality, more stable than mobile broadband.
This article was sourced from cellular-news.com.
UK broadband speeds slower than those around the world
A global broadband connections survey has shown that the broadband speeds in the UK are much lesser than that of countries around the world.
This survey, conducted for the Communications Workers of America (CWA), showed that the speed of internet which was experienced by most UK broadband customers was lesser than the speed of nearly 30 developed countries.
Moreover, most of these countries have had to overcome a number of geographical obstacles which are not present in the UK.
As an example, the average speed connection in the US is 5.1 MB, which makes it 29th in the world. This is despite the fact that the size of the country as well as the number of rural states make it less cost – effective to supply broadband to particular parts of the country.
The other countries with faster broadband include the Netherlands and Sweden, where they got 11 Mbps and 12.8 Mbps speeds respectively. However, South Korea is simply amazing with the average speed being 20.4 Mbps.
This survey is likely to renew criticism of the Digital Britain report, one of the proposals being to deliver 2 Mbps broadband speeds to every home in the country in 2012. Critics say that this speed isn’t enough to cater to next – gen broadband services.
However, speeds in the country could improve in the future with a recent announcement by BT that they had finished the initial stages of an upgrade to their network which would provide millions of people with a 20 Mbps connection, which would be achieved partly by the ADSL2+ technology and the free software BT Broadband Accelerator.
Virgin Media is also entering into a venture to improve speeds with their fibre optic broadband network and has been marketing a 50 Mbps connection since late last year. September will see the price of this reduce from 50 pounds a month to 30 pounds, thereby potentially increasing the usage of this high – speed broadband in the country. The marketing manager of Top 10 Broadband, Jessica McArdle, said that No.31 is not the ranking which the UK should have and hoped that the 50 Mbps package and 20 Mbps package offered by Virgin Media and BT will push the ranking of the country further up!
