Vodafone announces up to 14.4Mbps mobile broadband

Certain busy areas get speed boost

Vodafone announces up to 14.4Mbps mobile broadband
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27 August 2009 11:11 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Vodafone has announced that it is to offer the UK's fastest mobile broadband speeds up of to 14.1Mbps in certain areas of the country.

The operator says sites with the greatest demand are due to be upgraded first with the 14.4Mbps capability.

These include busy areas of London, Birmingham and Liverpool that have already seen the upgrade with the roll out will due to continue across the UK on an ongoing basis.

Over 80% of all Vodafone datacards, dongles and 3G handsets can work with the improved network speeds, although some older devices may not be capable of taking full advantage of the increase.

However, it's highly unlikely anyone will actually experience the full 14.4Mbps theoretical speeds.

Vodafone says customers can expect to see typical speeds of anything between 1 and 4 Mbps with a practical maximum speed of 10.8Mbps.

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Comments

  • If anyone wants to send me £10 I'll send you back 'up to' £20 in return. Posted by GK, UK
  • The whole exercise of increasing broadband speed is seriously flawed, as all ISP’s have a limited fair usage policy, even those ISPs who claim to give unlimited download still state a fair usage policy is in place. Hence by increasing the download speed the faster you reach your limit, before you either have restrictions placed on you and at worse loose your contract.

    Until such time as this problem is addressed, the push to watch TV via Broadband will only hasten the problems occurrence.


    Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk "
     Posted by Carl Barron, UK
  • I have recntly got Free net book of Virgin Media with Mobile broadband and home broadband ( http://quadplay.at/domestic ) But the speed of dongle is not that good. I hope virgin will come up with good speed soon. Posted by barrett, uk

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