Mobile Broadband 101
Wi-Fi is common these days, especially since there are a lot of places where you can get them for free. You may sit in a café or inside the mall, open your laptop and voila! You can be connected to the Internet. But think of all the people who have the same idea, and all of you sharing the free bandwidth all at the same time. Sum it all up and you get a really slow Internet connection, which is close to none. Perhaps, there is no mall or café near, or any establishment nearby. How can you be connected when you are out and about?
After all, these establishments which offer free Internet connection have two major limitations: you have to be paying customers or customers who are most likely to spend on something; and their connection is only available during the establishment’s operating hours. The Internet-savvy individual knows no hour, as an important social network update needs to be done when it needs to be done. Those who work on it (like freelancers and students) may not be in the comfort of their home with a stable DSL connection when something needs to be done online. Without DSL and Wi-Fi, what option do they have left? The answer comes in two bold words – mobile broadband (as we say in Denmark mobilt bredbånd).
What do we mean by mobile? The said word is used to describe something that moves freely and easily, without any attachment. Hence, mobile forms of communication allow us to be connected without being attached to a wire, for example, that prevents us from going from one place to another while communicating. Broadband, on the other hand, describes the ability to transmit large quantity of data at high speed—say, a fast Internet connection (as opposed to dial-up). When you put these words together, you get mobile broadband, which essentially pertains to high-speed transmission of large data wirelessly.
Because your laptop’s foremost function is to do computing tasks without the weight and bulk of a desktop computer, mobile broadband compliments this function by bringing the Internet in parallel to your laptop’s mobility. Its physical format is a USB device called a mobile broadband dongle. As a USB or Universal Bus Serial Device, it plugs in to a USB port—a standard interface of a computing device that allows connection to a peripheral device. Such are the basic features of a mobile broadband: mobility, large-data transmission in high-speed, and standard peripheral device. Through this, one can be Internet-connected while mobile, without the need to place a device inside the computer but rather outside, by merely plugging it in.
The mobile broadband dongle, also known as mobile broadband stick, allows Internet connectivity through the use of 3G technology. This technology is the same one used in mobile phone and smartphones, hence, allowing Internet connection in the presence of mobile phone coverage or “signal.” Postpaid or prepaid connection is thus also provided by mobile phone carriers.
For a minimum cost, this handy piece of technology will allow anyone to be Internet-connected anywhere, without the need to order coffee or wait for mall hours all the time.
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