Wednesday, March 5, 2014

What Is Meant By Mobile Broadband?

By Benjamin V. Dixon


Those times are gone when people used to get a nap while downloading a simple file from internet. Now anybody can send or receive essential files or emails in a matter of seconds. WWAN or wireless wide area network that is also known as mobile broadband makes all these possible. This form of mobile broadband comes as various data plans of mobile companies 3G or 4G networks.

Mobile broadband service is also used to provide wireless internet support to your other mobile products including laptop with the help of an in built mobile broadband network card. It can also be used on portable Wi-Fi hotspots or on a mobile modem. All the major cellular service provider offers this service to its users.

3G vs. 4G

At first, mobile internet service was provided as GPRS which was awfully slow. As the technology progressed, performance and speed of mobile internet also advanced dramatically. As a result, faster connections came into the field as EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, EV-DO, WiMAX AND LTE. Each of these has its own standard of performance. 4G or 4th generation mobile network is the newest edition in this industry which incorporates LTE and WiMax. Definitely it is the fastest network available today.

Benefits of 4G

Most of the customers are acquainted with 3G internet. It is fast enough for streaming online videos, viewing web photo albums, listening to music, and video conferencing. Compared to slower GPRS internet, 3G is a lot better and you will really appreciate but what if I tell you that there is a internet, that is around 10 times faster than 3G. Yes, the fourth generation of 4G is the latest thing in the world of mobile network. It is the widest network service on the planet. Mobile phone companies promise 4G may provide you with download rate of 700 kbps to 1.7 Mbps and upload speed of 500 kbps to up to 1.2 Mbps.

Poor signal can truly be very frustrating and besides just fast internet, 4G broadband is very useful in enhancing the standard of the network and signal strength. They may help mobile company to have largest network reach. Couple of decades ago we all were happy with dial-ups but in today's time 3G internet speed is not enough. 4G networks may provide a speed of up to 50 mbps, which can be very helpful.

High speed in online services can never be so much. Launch of 4G prepaid is a huge stride in the direction of improvement of internet speed. This jump is a huge achievement and promises to revolutionize internet. Better internet speed can also mean a lot in the mobile software development sector. 4G internet can also be transferred for computer use using a smartphone. With improvement in speed, one can browse web sites, stream videos and enjoy music with great speed.

Hotlink is one of the top mobile internet service provider in Malaysia. They promise to provide internet speed of around 52 Mbps. They are one of the very first providers of 4G internet service in the region with the very affordable hot tickets rates. Presently Hotlink provide many offers like 50% free data on 1 GB monthly data usage packages.




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