Mobile broadband: an apology

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Now some readers may think that this blog has a big downer of the UK's mobile broadband services due to lack of service at crucial times.

 

Well when on a train for example. Showing sure sign of age and remembering the sagacious advice of showbiz legend Jimmy Saville as to this being the age of the train, one of Jim's pronouncements was that on the train mobile workers could actually enact mobile working.

 

Now as these days work is a function and not a place, the train is somewhere where you'd expect mobile broadband to be readily available and it's been our sad duty to report that on one of the country's main train lines, the London to Liverpool/ Manchester/ Birmingham/Glasgow, mobile broadband service is somewhat patchy.

 

Now being the fair minded people that we are it is now our pleasant duty to report that this is not a universal criticism to be levelled at all on-train reception.

Indeed what a pleasant surprise it was to find almost near HSDPA, and at the very worst 3G, reception between London and Oxford. Now this seems logical given that the Thames Valley is the IT heartland of the UK.

 

But is this the point? Just because there are a veritable cornucopia of IT firms dotted around Berks and Oxon doesn't mean that the demand for mobile broadband services is less for those living between London and the North West.

 

Furthermore isn't it a huge competitive advantage for the train companies to offer secure mobile broadband and guarantee the office on the road between Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, or Glasgow and London, something the airlines can't do, just yet anyway, for journeys to the latter two places?

 

Soon to come for sure. You'd hope. It can be done.

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