WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband in UK 51
justice4all writes "A British company claims to have solved the problem of delivering a reliable broadband connection to people in rural communities. Deltenna has developed a small, self-installable gadget called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler) that uses the 3G mobile network to create a 2Mbps web hotspot. The device sounds similar in concept to devices like Novatel's MiFi, but Deltenna claims it works even in places where a 3G mobile phone wouldn't register a signal. The WiBE has five times the range of a 3G dongle, and can deliver 30 times data throughput compared to a 3G USB modem dongle, Deltenna believes."
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It all seems like a bit of a double up.
While I'm no fan of Telstra here in Australia, they have recently trialed LTE at 75km using Nokia Siemens Networks equipment.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/215787,telstra-lte-trial-100-mbps-wireless-over-75km-cell.aspx [itnews.com.au]
I know I'd prefer 100Mbps peak (88Mpbs average) over 2Mbps.
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Try this: http://www.gsmworld.com/cgi-bin/ni_map.pl?x=0&y=0&z=0&cc=gb&net=hu [gsmworld.com]
That's the map for "3 mobile", IIRC the first to roll out 3G in the UK, and advertise the best 3G coverage.
See also: Orange [gsmworld.com], T-Mobile [gsmworld.com], Vodaphone [gsmworld.com] and O2 [gsmworld.com] (haha).