Mobile broadband in reality

You see the ads now everywhere: mobile broadband for a tenner (that is pound – convert in your local equivalent). I am not going in the misleading bit of calling largely 2 or 2.5G coverage ‘broadband’. It is more the ‘mobile’ and the therefore created perception of everywhere that bothers me.

Take this example. I am sitting on a train to London – the main East England line into the capital fully packed with commuters who increasingly have these funny ‘broadband’ dongles hanging on their laptops. Trying for a similar experience on my mobile, I must sadly realise that the coverage is appaling. Large parts of the line are barely or not at all covered. I knew this somehow before which is why I never plan to take conference calls on the train. But now watching the signal really makes me realize how bad it really is.
So much for mobile…

P.s.: when trying to get people to use trains and other alternative transport it would be good to complement this with proper connectivity means. I must admit that other countries are significantly better though (while yet others are much worse)… Now trying to send this blog