mobile broadband
Networks
FCC May Reclaim Some TV Airwaves To Boost Wireless Broadband
10:28PM Danny Allen | You’ve heard lots about the FCC and net neutrality, but they’re also working on another important problem: Mobile broadband is growing faster than wireless providers have expansion room to cater for. What the FCC calls the “looming spectrum gap”. More »
Deals
2:58PM Nick Broughall | On top of checking out Lifehacker’s guide to mobile broadband, if you’re in the market for a mobile broadband plan, you should know that Vodafone’s just dropped the price of their prepaid starter pack to $129. That gets you a USB modem plus 2GB of data if you pick it up before the end of September (after that you’ll just get 500MB). More »
Vodafone Drops Price Of Prepaid Mobile Internet
2:58PM Nick Broughall | On top of checking out Lifehacker’s guide to mobile broadband, if you’re in the market for a mobile broadband plan, you should know that Vodafone’s just dropped the price of their prepaid starter pack to $129. That gets you a USB modem plus 2GB of data if you pick it up before the end of September (after that you’ll just get 500MB). More »
Networks
10:56AM Nick Broughall | A mobile broadband connection is like the Batarang in every good gadget hero’s belt – you don’t need it every time you head out to fight crime, but it comes in handy more often than not. If you’re wondering which mobile broadband solution is the best for you, make sure you head over to Gus’s Road Worrier column on Lifehacker this week, as he runs through all the Aussie 3G networks and rates them accordingly.
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Best 3G Modem Deals Rated By Lifehacker
10:56AM Nick Broughall | A mobile broadband connection is like the Batarang in every good gadget hero’s belt – you don’t need it every time you head out to fight crime, but it comes in handy more often than not. If you’re wondering which mobile broadband solution is the best for you, make sure you head over to Gus’s Road Worrier column on Lifehacker this week, as he runs through all the Aussie 3G networks and rates them accordingly.
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Deals
9:15AM Nick Broughall | The Internets can be dangerous, which is why Three has partnered with anti-virus software company AVG to offer a free 12 month subscription to all of its mobile broadband customers. More »
Three Offering Free AVG Subscription To Mobile Broadband Customers
9:15AM Nick Broughall | The Internets can be dangerous, which is why Three has partnered with anti-virus software company AVG to offer a free 12 month subscription to all of its mobile broadband customers. More »
Networks
10:00AM Nick Broughall | Just over a month after launching their 3G broadband service running off the back of Optus, Internode has boosted the data limits for its customers. More »
Internode Increases Its Data Quotas For Wireless Broadband
10:00AM Nick Broughall | Just over a month after launching their 3G broadband service running off the back of Optus, Internode has boosted the data limits for its customers. More »
Networks
11:13AM Nick Broughall | When it comes to cheap mobile broadband access, nobody beats 3. But the problem is that their coverage map isn’t exactly extensive, and as soon as you roam off onto Telstra’s 2G network, you start paying through the nose (and every other orifice you have). We knew that they had cut a deal with Telstra to improve that figure (and their effective network coverage) last year, but Whirlpool has just gotten its hands on some leaked pricing and while it’s an improvement, it still doesn’t quite fit the “affordable” ethos we’ve come to expect from 3. More »
3’s NextG Pricing Arrangements Revealed: 50c/MB
11:13AM Nick Broughall | When it comes to cheap mobile broadband access, nobody beats 3. But the problem is that their coverage map isn’t exactly extensive, and as soon as you roam off onto Telstra’s 2G network, you start paying through the nose (and every other orifice you have). We knew that they had cut a deal with Telstra to improve that figure (and their effective network coverage) last year, but Whirlpool has just gotten its hands on some leaked pricing and while it’s an improvement, it still doesn’t quite fit the “affordable” ethos we’ve come to expect from 3. More »
Networks
9:30AM Nick Broughall | While phone manufacturers and Microsoft are getting all the Mobile World Congress love from the US, the little Aussie Telco that could, Telstra, has been making some pretty big announcements of its own from Barcelona. The Telco has announced that starting February 23 and rolling out over the next two months or so, they’ll be launching a new wireless internet modem and offering 21Mbps wireless data speeds through NextG. That’s about the same speed as ADSL2+.
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Telstra Boosts Wireless Broadband To 21Mbps (In Theory)
9:30AM Nick Broughall | While phone manufacturers and Microsoft are getting all the Mobile World Congress love from the US, the little Aussie Telco that could, Telstra, has been making some pretty big announcements of its own from Barcelona. The Telco has announced that starting February 23 and rolling out over the next two months or so, they’ll be launching a new wireless internet modem and offering 21Mbps wireless data speeds through NextG. That’s about the same speed as ADSL2+.
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Peripherals
10:13AM Nick Broughall | Despite the fact that the 3 brand could disappear completely in this country as they merge with Vodafone later this year, the little-network-that-could is still popping out products. This time, it’s an internet key that swivels through 270 degrees, so you can “optimise reception and position your Internet Key for ultimate convenience”. Indeed. More »
Three Launches New Swivel Internet Key
10:13AM Nick Broughall | Despite the fact that the 3 brand could disappear completely in this country as they merge with Vodafone later this year, the little-network-that-could is still popping out products. This time, it’s an internet key that swivels through 270 degrees, so you can “optimise reception and position your Internet Key for ultimate convenience”. Indeed. More »
Gadgets
Mobile Broadband Finally Gets a Logo, But Is It a Cloud Or Seagulls?
4:20AM Kit Eaton | Relax, people who’ve been using mobile broadband internet: your scarily unbranded ‘net surfing days are over. The GSM Association has coordinated 3 Group, Asus, Dell, ECS, Ericsson, Gemalto, Lenovo, Microsoft, Orange, Qualcomm, Telefónica Europe, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Vodafone among others to create the “Mobile Broadband service mark.” It’s a logo designed to let consumers know the item they’re using/seeing on the shelf in a store is a ready-to-run mobile internet device. But is it a cloud or a pair of seagulls? Hopefully the latter: you wouldn’t want to run your precious laptop outside when rain is threatening. More »
Networks
10:03AM Nick Broughall | The biggest fear for any mobile road warrior out there using a wireless internet connection from one of the Telcos is that if you exceed your data quota for a month, your next bill will probably come packaged with a taser so you can shock yourself out of the wallet-sickening stupor.
The good news is that iPrimus yesterday broke trend with the rest of the mobile broadband providing networks by offering services that shape your data speeds rather than charge you excess, something ADSL has been offering for years.
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iPrimus Launches Capped Priced Mobile Broadband
10:03AM Nick Broughall | The biggest fear for any mobile road warrior out there using a wireless internet connection from one of the Telcos is that if you exceed your data quota for a month, your next bill will probably come packaged with a taser so you can shock yourself out of the wallet-sickening stupor.
The good news is that iPrimus yesterday broke trend with the rest of the mobile broadband providing networks by offering services that shape your data speeds rather than charge you excess, something ADSL has been offering for years.
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