Three (3) start to implement traffic shaping with their mobile broadband services today. So, what does this actually mean and is it good or bad for their mobile broadband customers? Why Do We Need Traffic Shaping? As broadband speeds increase, software and website developers create more and more data intensive applications. P2P file sharing applications, for example, [...] More...
We’ve all heard the phrase “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well, the same goes for laptops. During the last week we’ve broken down the so called “Free Laptop” mobile broadband offers to reveal the real costs for each laptop. We then compared some of them with the prices charged for the same [...] More...
The new Apple Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, is causing a big headache for mobile broadband networks and dongle manufacturers alike. We first noticed irritated Tweets through our Twitter monitoring system a couple of weeks ago, with Twitter users complaining that their mobile broadband services were out of action following an update to the new Mac [...] More...
What would happen if one of the five mobile networks took the decision to quit advertising and invest that cash into better service provision for it’s network users? For a start, we might not have to endure the irritating “comedian” who introduces comedy sponsored by 3 on channel 4, but I won’t get into that! Imagine [...] More...