What Is Mobile Broadband?

Mobile broadband internet service is being new popular service offered by telecommunication companies right now. Mobile broadband is mobile internet service which usually referring to the high speed internet access over the air (wireless). Mobile broadband is called high speed internet service since it is usually has high rate data of transmission about 256 Kbit/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or more. mobile telecommunication subscribers can get up to 3 Mbps while accessing mobile broadband with certainty condition.

Mobile Broadband technology

To accommodate mobile broadband service, telecommunication companies should decide which the mobile broadband technology they will use. The mobile broadband technology they can utilize like DSL, cable modem, Wi-Fi hotspot, optical fiber and satellite. The goal of choosing mobile broadband technology is to integrate voice, data and video into single network.

It is different with fixed broadband, where the end user are located on particular building or home and telecommunication companies should run the cabling, mobile broadband service are designed to broadcast the signals to everywhere. It means that mobile broadband service, will have unlimited access as long as the area covered by broadband signals.

Mobile broadband products in Indonesia

There are several mobile broadband products have been introduced by several telecommunication companies in Indonesia. The mobile broadband they used today is divided into 3G (third generation cell networks) and 4G (fourth generation). 3G services have been introduced since few years ago by telecommunication companies with GSM and CDMA platforms such as Telkomsel, Indosat, XL and Smart Telecom They launched. Meanwhile 4G technologies such as Wimax and LTE is under deploying by several new and existing telecommunication companies in Indonesia

Mobile broadband internet service is believed by each of telecommunication companies who already introduced and plan to that it will have high demand and being new trend in the futures. Therefore, several telecommunication companies have prepared for migrating the current network infrastructures to the latest one or to the next evolution.