Description
Although broadband has a technical meaning, wireless-carrier marketing uses the phrase "mobile broadband" as a synonym for Internet access. Bit rates of broadband support voice and video as well as other data access. Devices that provide mobile broadband to mobile computers include:
- PC cards also known as PC data cards or Connect cards
- USB modems
- USB flash drives, often called "dongles"
- portable devices with built-in support for mobile broadband (like notebooks, netbooks, smartphones and Mobile Internet Devices). Notebooks with built-in mobile broadband modules are offered by many laptop manufacturers.
Telecommunication manufacturers, mobile phone producers, integrated-circuit manufacturers and notebook manufacturers have joined forces in the GSM Association to push for built-in support for mobile-broadband technology on notebook computers. The association has established a service mark to identify devices that include Internet connectivity with devices not usually associated with it.
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