Can mobile broadband kill the landline?

GLOBAL – It’s well known that emerging markets are skipping the concept of landlines and jumping straight to mobiles to connect and share. In fact, the majority of the global population will first experience the Internet on their phone, rather than a PC. Does this set the stage for the future, or is it something confined only to countries where it’s a need, rather than a desire? Previously, I would have said the latter, but something I heard the other day is making me think it could well be the former.
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Bursting the mobile broadband bubble

LONDON, UK – The invisibility and seamlessness of mobile services and devices may be some way off , yet one of the key ingredients in bringing us closer to this vision of unconsciously intuitive mobile experiences is the rapid evolution of mobile broadband and bullet-speed over-the-air connectivity. But is this key ingredient ripe enough yet to step up and take centre stage on the road to the next-gen mobile world?

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Mobile broadband gets a speed bump

AUSTRIA – How fast is your broadband at home? On a good day, we get about 3Mbps, which is good enough for most activities, though downloading big files does take a little time. Now how about if we had 10Mbps? That’d be quick, certainly fast enough to do pretty much anything we want online. Now how about if you had 10Mbps on your phone? That’s just what Nokia Siemens managed in a recent test with mobilkom Austria.