Mobile broadband to exceed fixed line broadband by 2011

The popularity and take up of mobile broadband has been amazing, with the numbers of new mobile broadband users mushrooming in the last year.

It is now believed by some in the industry that by 2011 the number of mobile broadband connections could be more than the number of fixed line broadband connections in the UK.

The popularity of mobile broadband is easy to see, it offers easy and convenient access to the Internet with the freedom to use it when you want to and not being limited to your home, plus the prices of mobile broadband are not huge meaning that it has made it accessible for many.

The thing with mobile broadband is that it is still not able to deliver broadband speeds as fast and as reliable as fixed line broadband, plus with the roll out of next generation fibre broadband taking place it is going to struggle even more to compete with it.

We can’t see mobile broadband replacing fixed line broadband but we do see it as a complementary broadband Internet service that users will make use of when away from the home.

What will make mobile broadband or 3G Internet more popular is that ever increasing bits of technology are being built with the ability to connect to it.