Street Broadband

Today the world community of wireless operators have faced with the serious problem. As we know the number of radio frequencies and in general wireless data transfer capabilities are limited. Unlike cable networks, the number of wireless connections can be increased only to some certain number!

We use enormous amount of gadgets that transmit data wirelessly. And sooner or later it can lead to the crucial moment when providers have not enough the world’s airspace.

Christopher Guttman-McCabe, a representative of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), explains that wireless data transmission is similar to highway traffic and soon we will need new “highways”.

Google is going to launch its fiber-optic experimental network. As reported in the official company blog, Google’s innovative broadband network will allow to transfer data at ultra high speed. At least 50,000 users will be connected to this network at the first stage of the project. And then this figure may be increased to 500,000 people.

This new network will open doors for the Internet applications of the next generation developed for high speed access.

Some top managers are under apprehension of the future trends in the market of mobile broadband services. They are anxious about possible merger of Orange and T-Mobile, considering it as birth of a new monopolist among mobile broadband providers.

Kevin Russell, 3’s Chief Executive, explains that such “alignment of forces” can concentrate 84% of the UK’s 1800Mhz radio spectrum under the direction of one company.

By the way, this year Orange was announced the best mobile broadband company in the UK. So there is no reason to be surprised that this possible merger attracted the attention of the OFT (the Office of Fair Trading).

iPad, this much-talked-of latest Apple creation, will be connected to the Internet. TalkTalk, the UK broadband provider, plans to offer such a new service.

The expansion of new tablet PCs didn’t pass unnoticed by different internet providers, so mobile broadband through the Apple iPad can be considered as the future trend.

Nevertheless such companies as Orange, O2 and Vodafone hasn’t yet answered the question about their plans connected with 3G broadband services for the iPad.

People living in countryside can find themselves in a tight corner because of lack of high-speed broadband. This fact can have a direct impact upon their chances in the jobs market.

Charlie Brooks, a famous journalist writing for The Sunday and The Daily Telegraph, counted that 10% of people in England will appear outside the walls of digital civilization, though £1 billion will be invested in rural broadband.

Absence of high-speed internet broadband can put those people at a disadvantage in the workforce market, because today more and more employers are applying home working models.

Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (CES 2010) brings new technologies and shows that innovative gadgets leave testing laboratories and become part of our everyday life.

Let’s take as an example the new long term evolution USB modem from LG that was demonstrated at CES this year. The LTE modem allows to download files at speed of 100 Mb/s and upload information at 50 Mb/s. It means that 4G mobile communications technologies from LG bring you closer to multimedia content in the Net. Now it takes only one minute to download a new film or a music album on your notebook using mobile broadband connection.

The O2 company, UK internet service provider, has conducted a new research to determine how technologies have influenced business companies this year.

The results show that mobile internet has caused increase in efficiency in almost 50% of small businesses in the UK. So 44% of respondents think that high-tech devices (e.g. iPhones) and mobile broadband technologies have changed their companies, facilitating business operations. 65% of managers have great confidence that their investments in new technologies have justified their hopes in spite of the economic crisis.

A Google netbook based on Chrome OS may be as real as a much-talked-of Google smartphone based on Android OS. So this new gadget should be considered as the best product for support of the first PC operating system that was developed by Google programmers.

According to the rumors that appear in different online-communities of IT experts, Google plans to put its netbook on the market at the end of 2010. As expected, it will have embedded modules for broadband Internet connection (WWAN), 3G and 4G modems and flash memory instead of hard drive.

The O2 telecommunications company has deployed the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) network standard in Slough, Buckinghamshire.

The photo of Slough in 1950, quiet life without 4G and even 3G

Network deployment was put in charge of the Huawei Chinese company. Now inhabitants of Slough can enjoy high-speed mobile Internet. If the experiment is considered as successful, LTE-network will appear in other parts of the country.

4G-technology was developed to replace the networks of the third 3G generation. Theoretically, a system based on LTE can provide internet speed up to 326 Mbps downloads and to 86 Mbps uploads.

According to Matt Hatton’s words (an analyst from Analysys Mason), many companies are developing now phones with LTE support. Apple is working at its 4G iPhone, and Nokia, the Finnish mobile giant, does believe that LTE is the future of mobile communications.