Mobile Broadband

["Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Possibly good news for those who can't get "normal"
broadband...



http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/19/telecoms.telecoms

T-Mobile and 3 are pooling their 3G mobile phone networks in a move to
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wireless broadband to 98% of the UK population and save =A32bn over the
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decade by cutting out 5,000 phone masts....

By the end of 2009 the two companies plan to have 13,000 sites, covering
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of the population with a mobile broadband network capable of speeds up to
7.2 MB per second - or nearly twice the current average residential
broadband speed and nearly twenty times faster than existing 3G services.

T-Mobile's 3G network currently covers about 85% of the UK population while
3's covers about 90%. That, however, leaves massive geographic gaps, many
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which will be plugged by the joint venture.

M.