Mobile broadband refers to wireless internet access through portable devices like modems, phones, and laptops. It uses wireless networks like 3G, 4G, and satellite to allow internet connectivity anywhere. The GSM Association promotes building mobile broadband directly into laptops. While speeds can be high, coverage limitations and network capacity can impact actual speeds experienced by users. Mobile broadband subscription grew rapidly in the 2010s, reaching over 500 million users, and is projected to double to 1 billion users.

1. Internet.
On the GO.

2. Mobile Broadband.
The Portable Internet.

3. Get
Connected.
Anywhere.
Anytime.

4. • Mobile broadband is the
marketing term
for wireless Internet
access through a portable
modem, mobile phone or other
Introduction.
mobile device.

5. • Although broadband has a technical meaning, the
phrase "mobile broadband" is a wireless carrier
marketing term for Internet access. Bit rates of
broadband support voice and video as well as
other data access. Devices that provide mobile
broadband to mobile computers include: PC
cards, USB modems, USB sticks often called
"dongles", and portable devices with built-in
support for mobile broadband. Notebooks with
built-in mobile broadband modules are offered by
many laptop manufacturers.
Description.

6. • The GSM Association of telecommunication
manufacturers, mobile phone
producers, integrated circuit manufacturers
and notebook manufacturers have joined
forces to push built-in support for mobile
broadband technology on notebook
computers. The association established
a service mark to identify devices that
include Internet connectivity with devices not
usually associated with it.
The GSM Association.

7. • Various network standards may be used, such
as GPRS, 3G,iBurst UMTS/HSPA, EV-DO and
some portable satellite-based systems. However
mostly the term refers to EVDO, EDGE on GSM
and HSPDA/HSUPA/HSPA on UMTS/3G/Foma.
Such systems piggyback on the mobile phone
infrastructure. The actual "non-Mobile Phone"
Mobile networks are very small subscriber base
compared to fixed wireless broadband. A
common vendor tactic is to quote the peak
speed for the entire channel. This capacity can
be shared among other users, or limited in other
ways as the network becomes more popular.
Networks Standards.

8. • In 2002, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers(IEEE) established a Mobile Broadband
Wireless Access (MBWA) working group. They
developed the IEEE 802.20 standard in 2008, with
amendments in 2010. Another working group, IEEE
802.16, produced standards adopted in products
using the WiMAX trademark.
• A barrier to mobile broadband was the coverage the
mobile phone networks can provide. In many areas
customers will not be able to achieve the speeds
advertised due to mobile data coverage limitations. In
addition, there are issues with connectivity, network
capacity, application quality, and mobile network
operators' overall inexperience with data traffic.
Development.

9. • After mobile broadband subscribers hit 500 million
in 2010, at the end of 2011 Ericsson predicted it will
be doubled to a billion.
• In the United Kingdom, a group known as Digital
Britain was set up, with the aim of promoting digital
telecommunications. The conclusion of the steering
group was a recommendation that the government
took up, namely to have 100% broadband
coverage, with a minimum speed of 2Mbps in the
United Kingdom by the year 2012. Mobile
"broadband" using 3G is not now expected to be
able to ensure 2Mbit/s broadband coverage to the
more remote areas of the UK as coverage is too
Development.
poor and contention too high.

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12. Vodafone Dongles.

13. Dongles from
Various Mobile
Broadband
Providers.

15. THE
MOBILE
BROADBAND.
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