Mobile broadband is the delivery of an internet service using mobile phone technology. There are several ways of providing mobile broadband including 3G, 4G and 5G.
4G is the fourth generation of mobile phone technology. 2G technology was suitable for making calls and sending text messages while 3G made it possible to access the internet through your mobile phone.
4G services make it much quicker to surf the web on mobiles, tablets and laptops. Because of this, 4G is ideally suited for services which demand more capacity like video streaming, mapping and social networking sites.
There is a big speed increase with 4G – at about 12-15 Mbps, it's up to five times faster than 3G. This means 4G provides an additional speed boost for video viewing and increasingly important business services such as mobile video conferencing and cloud computing. 4G also allows for cost-effective, stable international calls on internet calling services, such as Skype, Facetime or Messenger, even at peak hour strainTime period when most users are on the internet at the same time times.
5G is the fifth generation of mobile network technology. 5G technology promises mobile data speeds that far outstrip the fastest home broadband network currently available in the UK. With speeds of up to 100 gigabits per second, 5G will be as much as 1,000 times faster than existing bandwidth.
