Mobile Phones

2007 promises to be an exciting year on the broadband front as mobile operators Vodafone, O2 and 3 enter the fray and take on the established, but plodding, fixed-line order.
The torpor currently understood to be affecting the Irish housing market is nothing compared to the sluggish inactivity of the Irish broadband market which, even at an estimated 430,000 connections, is far behind the international standard.

The arrival of a third-generation (3G) mobile technology called HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) is believed to be the calling card for the mobile industry to reverse this lamentable trend.

HSDPA modems and phones promise to give broadband speeds to laptop users of anything between 1.4Mbps to 3.6Mbps and the respective networks each cover between 70pc and 80pc of the country.

Will this make a meaningful difference to the country’s broadband performance? It ought to but as the dawn of 2007 gives way to elevenses, I’m not so sure mobile operators are going to approach it in the right fashion.

Source and more info: siliconrepublic

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