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Many of you will wish that you had WiFi available in your car, and you aren’t alone, a recent 72 Point survey concluded that :

• 71 per cent of British people believe portable Wi-Fi access in a car, where up to five passengers can connect to Wi-Fi devices, would be useful for work and entertainment while travelling

• Car travel with children is so painful that 54 per cent of British travellers would rather stay home and avoid discovering the UK by road

• What’s worse is that almost 10 percent would rather have root canal therapy than endure car travel with the kids

• The M25 is considered the most tedious motor journey by 40 percent of British people, followed by the M1 (22 per cent) and the M6 (20 per cent)

• 8 out of 10 parents have battled with kids when travelling by car because they get bored or restless if left without entertainment

• 60 per cent would be more likely or would consider travelling in a taxi with Wi-Fi

• One in three British people (34 per cent) would use In-car Wi-Fi for social media purposes and emailing friends, followed by one in five (21 per cent) for work purposes and one in six (18 per cent) to stream online videos (eg BBC iPlayer and YouTube)

3uk are providing a cost effective method of providing in car Wifi, they have released a special version of their MiFi (a Huawei E5830 Mobile Internet Router) that includes an in car power adapter. The MiFi provides Wifi Connectivity so it’s easy to connect Laptops, iPods and even portable Games consoles, proving access to Social Networking, Traffic Updates, email, online gaming etc, from your car seat.

Suddenly those long car journeys don’t seem to quite that bad

Which Mobile Data supplier has the largest 3G Data Coverage?

Most people would naturally assume that the longest established Networks like O2 or Vodafone would give the largest coverage of 3G data, but that isn’t necessarily correct. The actual answer is that it’s one of the youngest Mobile companies in the UK, Three,  that based on the positioning of their masts and residential population figures that actually have the Largest Mobile Data coverage.

3uk have just activated it’s 10,000th site in Shooters Hill, South-East London which brings access to it’s data network to over 92% of the countries population.

With more and more businesses becoming reliant on Mobile data to conduct business, and an increase in the popularity of  Mobile Apps, like the music application Spotify, in the consumer market Mobile Data Coverage, Network Reliability  and Contention Ratios are fast becoming Big Issue’s.

3UK are looking to add a further 3000 sites this year and are also working with T-Mobile through the Mobile Broadband Network Limited joint venture to further increase network coverage.