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T-Mobile International may have come up with the killer application to differentiate its 3G offering and fuel new demand for mobile broadband dongles: share the device bandwidth among multiple users.
One of the obvious drawbacks for those who want to slice landlines and go all-mobile is the inability to share that 3G data connection from a single input device or dongle. While common for DSL or cable modems to share in-building broadband with a WiFi link, a 3G dongle has generally been a one-user dead end. By launching a wireless router in the U.K., T-Mobile will be able to mirror landline services by letting up to three users connect using the dongle plugged into a Mobile Broadband Share Dock.
While there is speculation that the dock will be given away for certain users on packaged plans and available to existing customers via a separate purchase, T-Mobile has yet to define how the unit will be distributed other than to claim that up to three people can share a wireless connection "comfortably" with it.
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Comments
Posted by MobileDataUK | October 6, 2008 - 5:17pm
I think this is a great thing to have. It's a shame that it is locked to the T-Mobile network, although I've heard Three will be releasing one as well. But, that will probably be locked to the Three network.
For anyone interested, I've written a short post on my Blog about using Routers with Mobile Broadband:
mobiledatauk.blogspot.com/2008/10/increase-potential-of-your-mobile.html
Enjoy,
Neil.
mobiledatauk.blogspot.com/
Posted by MobileDataUK | October 6, 2008 - 5:46pm
I think this is a great thing to have. It's a shame that it is locked to the T-Mobile network, although I've heard Three will be releasing one as well. But, that will probably be locked to the Three network.
For anyone interested, I've written a short post on my Blog about using Routers with Mobile Broadband:
mobiledatauk.blogspot.com/2008/10/increase-potential-of-your-mobile.html
Enjoy,
Neil.
mobiledatauk.blogspot.com/
Posted by Adam Moores | October 21, 2008 - 8:05pm
i think its a joke. I can't even get a reliable connection when i've got '99%' signal strength. It's only useable at night when nobody local has one on! I have experienced some seriously poor speeds and some REALLY annoying drops in connection. Totally useless for realtime client/server apps coz it just cant sustain a conn for more than 3-4 seconds!! (BOBBINS) an from wot i can see its down to there grim contention ratios. 300/400+ users on x1 - 100mb line?? and its on an 18 month contract! "Cheeky ..."
T-MOBILE sort the network out before u try putting any users on it
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