Industry Bands Together to Push Mobile Broadband in Laptops
A second goal with the initiative is to offer an alternative to Wi-Fi-based hotspots, and on a national level mobile broadband offers better convenience and pricing than hotspots, but more than a mark is needed if mobile broadband is to compete with Wi-Fi hotspots on all levels.
"Cheaper international roaming is as important. If you price it out of the market it's never going to take off," said Christian Salbaing, managing director of 3 Group in Europe.
Salbaing thinks the E.U. suggested ¬1 (US$1.46) per megabyte on a wholesale level, which is what operators pay each other, is still too expensive. "We think it should be ¬0.25, but it could be even lower, because the real cost is way under ¬0.25," he said.
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