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WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband in UK

Posted by timothy on from the until-the-cows-come-home dept.

justice4all writes "A British company claims to have solved the problem of delivering a reliable broadband connection to people in rural communities. Deltenna has developed a small, self-installable gadget called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler) that uses the 3G mobile network to create a 2Mbps web hotspot. The device sounds similar in concept to devices like Novatel's MiFi, but Deltenna claims it works even in places where a 3G mobile phone wouldn't register a signal. The WiBE has five times the range of a 3G dongle, and can deliver 30 times data throughput compared to a 3G USB modem dongle, Deltenna believes."

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  1. Re:Slashvertisement by xaxa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, and has anyone ever had any reception in a 'rural' area?

    This is UK-rural, which isn't really that rural.

    See, for example, the yellow bits on this map.

  2. Re:Slashvertisement by EdZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd be surprised if it wasn't. You house generally doesn't move about all that much, so it's trivial to point a high-gain antenna towards the nearest mobile phone mast/strongest local reflection. You can even stick in on it's own mast to increase line-of-sight.