What is Mobile Broadband?

Mobile broadband is defined as broadband access (e.g. cable and DSL) in the cellular environment. The term is synonymous with FLASH-OFDM, a 3G alternative system.

Just as the cellular phone revolutionized voice telephony by freeing the user from wires and stationary constraints, mobile broadband is doing the same for high-speed data. Users are no longer confined to desks, no longer tethered to wires, no longer restricted to a stationary environment.

Mobile broadband is a step up from local wireless data applications like WiFi (and eventually WiMax), which gets rid of the wire, but not the confinement. Users still must be stationary and in a certain area (mostly inside) when using such technologies. One can think of WiFi as the data equivalent of the cordless phone, whereas mobile broadband is analogous to the cell phone, enabling everywhere access to high speed data – at any range of motion.

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