50Mbps Possible on mobile boradband

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2009 at 18:49

Thought I'd throw this out to the forum as it might not get noticed otherwise. Ericsson (who for the unaware are a huge provider of the techy base station components of mobile networks) just demo'd a 56Mbps HSPA solution.

This is up from a maximum 21Mbps at present and they say they'll be good to deploy and support 42Mbps solutions from the years end. Essentially they're using a variation of the MIMO technology home routers have had for a while.

So, if you could genuinely get 20mbps+ from mobile broadband at a decent price would you scrap home broadband?

Of course there are big obstacles - notably the networks backhaul isn't up to it right now...

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2009 at 18:59

That's a fair enough objection, I'm just kind of wondering how many people that and the similar problems are an obstacle for...

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2009 at 19:44

Good to see some opinions. Personally I would probably do without home broadband if I could get the bandwidth the same on mobile broadband. Whether you need routers for it to become widespread is a good question too. Personally I don't like laptops with built in 3G, I'd prefer an 'unlimited' data SIM in my phone and a bluetooth dial up, works with any laptop, no swapping SIMs etc...

But I think mobile broadband is probably the future. Not least because I can use it anywhere...imagine being able to take your ADSL with you on the train, for a coffee etc...

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2009 at 21:55

Burnsy2023 said:
Is this part of the UTMS8 trials? Either way a wired connection is always going to be better, lower latency, less packet loss etc.

Technically better maybe, but ethernet over fibre is always going to be better than DSL and nobody is paying £10k a year for a home connection. The advantages will likely outweigh the downsides for your average user fairly soon.