Mobile Broadband is defined and using the internet on am mobile device. These devices can be anything from smartphones and cell phones to laptops, netbooks and even certain medical devices and monitors, such as heart or lung monitors. All of these devices connect to a computer network using mobile broadband Internet service by subscribing to an ISP, or Internet Service provider.
ISPs offer numerous types of mobile broadband service including varying speed cap plans, unlimited minute plans, monthly and yearly plans and others. Most include a maximum speed at which the data transfers over the mobile broadband connection and can include speeds of up to 100 MBp/s or as slow as 3MBp/s to 6 MBp/s.
The service works by sending the mobile broadband Internet signal over a set of wires, which then connect to a modem or a router. In order for the broadband service to be truly mobile, the device used with the broadband internet service must connect wirelessly. This requires the usage of specially equipped routers, which are compatible with the wireless internet standard of IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n.
Devices such as laptops or netbooks will require the use of a network card compatible with the wireless standard to connect to the mobile broadband service; however, most smartphones and some cell phones have this network card already built into them.
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