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Phil Sheppard, the Director for Technical Solutions at 3 UK, while addressing a panel meet discussing Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report, emphatically said that mobile broadband will help the government fulfil its pledge of providing broadband to the entire UK. He added that installing and launching mobile broadband across the country was far cheaper than laying fixed line internet.

According to Sheppard, all that mobile broadband needed was access to the spectrum and it did not require any financial support from the government. The right amount of bandwidth along with a few thousand sites are more than enough to set up a solid mobile broadband base and this will provide broadband facilities to more than 2 million users in the UK, even in remote towns.

Showing that this claim of Sheppard’s may be a bit too bold, a recent survey conducted by Mobile Broadband Genie revealed that the reality was quite different, with almost 90 per cent of mobile broadband users feeling totally disgruntled about the service, especially with regard to the broadband speed of their connection.

The survey clearly highlights the fact that merely freeing up spectrum and giving it to mobile broadband providers will not solve the problem. Although Sheppard feels that mobile broadband is the best choice that the country has in terms of cost effectiveness and dependability, he should probably also acknowledge the urgent need for improving the quality of service.

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