Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Mobile Broadband Overtakes Wi-Fi

Proponents of mobile broadband have argued that 3G and other mobile broadband networks ultimately would make Wi-Fi networks largely unnecessary. While that is not yet completely true, it increasingly true. Mobile broadband now has pushed the mobile phone networks ahead of Wi-Fi hotspots as the most popular way of accessing the Internet on the move, in the United Kingdom, according to Point Topic.

U.K. mobile phone companies have managed to grow their market share to 47 percent of users accessing the Internet away from home or work, compared to 42 percent who use Wi-Fi hotspots. A year earlier the ratio was 40:30 in favor of Wi-Fi, Point Topic says.

Point Topic says 26 percent of those who use a mobile network to access the Internet are O2 customers. Orange and Vodafone each take about 20 percent of the market, while T-Mobile and 3 have 14 percent and 12 percent respectively.

Vodafone is the leading provider of the dongle-user segment, with 24 percent share. of respondents. O2 comes in at 23 percent, followed by Orange, T-Mobile and 3, Point Topic says.

1 comment:

smithsan said...

It’s been claimed that mobile broadband has become more popular than Wi-Fi hotspots because it is not location specific. The attraction of mobile broadband is that users have internet access no matter where they are in the country rather than being limited to finding Wi-Fi access.

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