By March 2009 three million British homes had mobile broadband access according to communications watchdog Ofcom.
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Adding in the most conservative estimates of mobile broadband availability, the actual number of Americans without access to broadband drops from 19 million to 14 million.
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Indeed, counting mobile broadband, more Americans already have access to high-speed Internet services than have complete plumbing.
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But in 2012, we had 1.2 billion people getting access to broadband on mobile devices.
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From next year, Virgin Media's mobile and broadband customers will be offered continued access as part of their subscriptions.
Mobile phones, it seems, are the advance guard for mobile-broadband networks that will extend internet access to the whole of mankind.
But mobile broadband is the fastest-growing category of new Internet access services.
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Where price or lack of access makes fixed broadband impossible or implausible, mobile broadband is a viable substitute.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, the increase in the number of customers using smartphones, along with T-Mobile USA's continued upgrade of its 3G and 4G networks helped drive Internet access revenue growth through the increased customer adoption of mobile broadband data plans.
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Instead, Cooper argued that mobile networks should be using access point base stations, or femtocells: broadband-connected local cell stations that beam cell signals over focused areas inside of buildings.
They would likely use the spectrum to improve Internet access to mobile devices as people increasingly use their phones for messaging, e-mail, broadband video, over-the-air purchases and mobile TV.
The ubiquity of broadband connections means large imaging files captured by geospatial satellites are easy to access by personal computers and mobile devices.
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