There’s an interesting idea floating about for putting a “UMTS base-station module into a home gateway connected via ADSL” to provide dedicated 3G access at home. The dedicated access would give a much better quality of service, could switch to the public system when the person left home and would give “mobile operators the opportunity to design residential cellular-based services for the consumer market”.
There’re some problems to sort out of course, but they don’t seem insurmountable. The most obvious question is whether there is a demand for improved 3G access at home, but apparently so. “Today, a high proportion of mobile voice calls are made at home – figures of 30% to 40% are often quoted. At the same time, mobile users are generating more and more mobile data traffic while at home.”
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