T Mobile, one of the UKs leading mobile phone operators, is planning to enter the highly competitive UK broadband market with a new type of service.
In a move sure to worry service providers such as the Carphone Warehouse, who launched their new service last month, T Mobile intends to use the mobile network rather than landlines to provide the service. Leveraging the 3G mobile phone network will open up cheap broadband to the 12% of UK households without a landline telephone. Most of these households are young people and could be easily converted to broadband. With a price of around £8.50 per month T Mobile are confident that they can undercut other broadband providers simply because there is no line rental (currently around £11 per month) to pay.
With the unstoppable rise in mobile phone usage there are many households that only use a landline for internet access. T Mobile is removing one of the major barriers stopping UK consumers switching off their landline connections permanently.
The technology behind the network is high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) and will use a wireless box attached to your PC to pick up the broadband signal.
