Comments on: BT Adds Mobile Broadband to Its Consumer Bundles http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/bt-adds-mobile-broadband-to-its-consumer-bundles/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rotten time for 3 to cancel mobile broadband bargain… « Dirty Bytes http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/bt-adds-mobile-broadband-to-its-consumer-bundles/#comment-209519 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:39:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=47677#comment-209519 [...] deal expires end April. But that makes BT’s launch of a re-badged Vodafone bundle well timed. Stacey Higginbotham (amongst many) told her readers that the deal is based on Vodafone 3G [...]

]]> By: Joshua http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/bt-adds-mobile-broadband-to-its-consumer-bundles/#comment-209518 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:41:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=47677#comment-209518 This is an awesome plan. Carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mob, Sprint in the US) have all capped their Wireless data cards for non-enterprise customers at 5GB of use. Their new marketing strategy is position data cards as an addendum to home internet access and wifi service. By cross-marketing these two services as one package the carriers leverage both their native landline assets and their ever-increasing wireless assets.

Obviously, as wireless speed increases, mobility is a greater asset than fixed line service, and will ultimately become the choice of consumers who don’t need the fastest access possible. When LTE launches in the US, a 20Mbps connection wirelessly will be enough for most consumers to use and Fiber/Cable will only be for torrenting, gaming and business.

-Josh

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