Jeremy Gadd

Archive for November, 2008

Back in March of this year I wrote a blog post about the 3 Mobile Broadband service. About 9 months on I thought I would let you hear my thoughts about it.

I live in a rural area of Northern Ireland and took on the PAYG 3 Broadband because the house I was renting at the time didn’t have a landline phone in it, and so no chance of getting a normal wired broadband service. So initially I thought this was broadband heaven – go and sit in a cow field or up the top of a mountain and watch stuff on YouTube. No, no. Sorry. Wrong! You might as well forget it. At peak times as I got LESS THAN dial up 56K speeds.

On the positive side though I would say that:

1. it IS better than having to go and book an hour on a computer at the local library;
2. if you’re a night time person like me you can get good enough speeds at 1am (that’s the time I’m writing this now!);
3. if you do manage to get a good signal you can get out and use it without having to be stuck at home.

I think that like all new ideas it will improve as the technology improves and more competition in the Mobile Broadband market forces companies to improve their service or lose customers rapidly. This whole area is rapidly expanding and can only get better.

All I can say is thanks to Three for at least allowing me to get online in a situation where it was not possible at all at all and without a long contract.

Thanks for listening.

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