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