According to a recent report, the UK is a haven for VoIP traffic, as it has the cheapest mobile broadband in Europe.
This makes the UK attractive to users of VoIP phones, who use the service to communicate more effectively with colleagues and enables remote and flexible working, which proved vital during the recent disruption to work that the country experienced.
The UK beat France, Germany, Italy and Spain with an average mobile broadband cost of around £15. This was comfortably less than France, where users pay on average twice the amount as in the UK and 4GB could set a consumer back as much as £76.
Mobile broadband subscribers in these five major European markets are expected to rise from 22 million at the end of 2009 to over 43 million in 2011, with the combined revenue expected to rise from £5.3 billion to £9.8 billion over the same period.
The GSM Association has predicted that the forecast growth will boost technologies used for mobile broadband, allowing users to have more reliable VoIP on the go, which will help employees that work remotely.
Mobile Broadband users will experience even faster data rates that will start to compete more effectively with fixed line broadband offerings.
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As featured on Telappliant.com.