| It's the new technology that's shaking up the | | | | changing the world. |
| world; it's mobile broadband and it's AWESOME! | | | | Mobile Broadband - the future! |
| The evolution of mobile broadband | | | | As we roll on through 2008, the internet is ever |
| Who remembers the dark days of the internet? | | | | more prevalent in every aspect of our lives. It's |
| Who remembers dialup, waiting for ages to get a | | | | not that long ago that Intel (and if you're at all |
| connection (at something like 36kbps), only to get | | | | interested in computers, and don't know the |
| disconnect again after you'd been connected for 3 | | | | name Intel, then shame on you!) stated that the |
| nanoseconds? Oh, how we all breathed a | | | | future is the internet wherever you are, with fast |
| collective sigh of relief when we got broadband | | | | access, and mobile broadband at your fingertips. |
| access, and didn't have to go and make a toffee | | | | Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what |
| (no, not a coffee, a toffee... that'd kill an hour) | | | | we already have?! Having used a mobile |
| while web pages loaded. Honestly, I'm not kidding, | | | | broadband package myself, I can confirm that 1/ |
| the day I first got broadband, and was able to | | | | it is properly mobile, and 2/ it is absolutely brilliant. |
| yank out my old dialup modem and set fire to it, | | | | Like, mind-blowingly cool. I mean come on, I was |
| was the day I rejoiced to the heavens! | | | | getting 3.6Mbps while I was in the back of a car, |
| Of course, even with broadband, things didn't stop | | | | driving up the motorway. Quite apart from the |
| evolving. now are they ever likely to stop | | | | fact we were in motion (but below the speed |
| evolving, either, but let's look back once again. | | | | limit), the connection was also, ooh, 3.6 times |
| After the first broadband packages became | | | | faster than my fixed connection, at home! |
| available, it was a very, very quick process until | | | | But even now, broadband isn't going to stop |
| they infiltrated the home, until they let home | | | | evolving. We've gone from fixed connections |
| users get the same broadband coolness as the | | | | running as fast as a snail on prozac, all the way up |
| university I went to. But even then, it still didn't | | | | to the current mobile broadband connections, |
| stop evolving, not even when home users were | | | | running at lots of megabytes per second. It's like |
| getting connections at 4, 8, 16, 25, a billion Mbps... | | | | comparing a milk float to Concorde, in terms of |
| because the next big thing would be broadband | | | | speed. But when you compare mobile broadband |
| while you were on the move. Not WiFi access, | | | | to its predecessors, it gives you some idea of |
| but proper mobile broadband, wherever you | | | | how fast the technology evolves. Just imagine |
| were... And that's the technology that's now | | | | how fast it'll be in the future! |