A comScore study released recently shows US mobile Internet use is rising exponentially as people increasingly opt to be online while on the move [Via]. The number of people using broadband mobile Internet connections jumped to 2.16 million in the final three months of 2007 as compared to 854,000 in the same period a year [...]
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is planning to raise the minimum speed for a broadband connection to 2 Mbps from the present 256 Kbps, always-on access. The broadband policy of 2004 defines a broadband connection as an always-on internet access with a minimum speed of 256 Kbps from the point-of-presence (POP) of service [...]
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Another step towards ubiquitous Internet Access came a few days earlier, with JetBlue Airways offering a free e-mail and instant messaging service on one of its planes. American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines plan to offer broader Web access soon, but at a price (estimates put it in the region of $10 per flight). [...]
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Further to my earlier post on Internet access using the mobile comes this article in Business Standard. The latest Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) figures showed that the number of Indians using their mobiles (both GSM and CDMA) to access the internet has more than doubled from 16 million in 2006 to 38 million [...]
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