3G as an alternative to home broadband?

 
In a desire to develop competition in broadband provision to the home, many have hoped that wireless might one day evolve sufficiently to become a viable alternative. But the technologists were generally sceptical. Wireless, they noted, did not have the capacity and tended to lag behind the speed of fixed connections. Previous attempts to deliver [...]

A measurement device in your pocket

The recent news item that a US university had used mobiles to track the movement of thousands of individuals generated a lot of interest in the press. The study, reported in Nature, took anonymised data from a cellular operator as to the movements of their users and concluded from this that humans are creatures of [...]

Hexagons in 3D – Is it time to update the defining image of the cellular industry?

If you had to pick a single iconic image to represent  the world of the mobile operator , it would have to be the hexagon. Much used in the early marketing literature of operators, the hexagon provided a simple representation of the area covered by a base station, and helped to illustrate how a limited [...]