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The ability to work anywhere, at any
time, is essential to growing businesses and the UK’s
high quality, mobile phone networks, rapidly-growing
3G coverage and one of the biggest Wi-Fi (public WLAN)
networks in the world, mean that the UK is leading the
way.
The UK has 10,000 Wi-Fi HotSpots – almost as
many as Germany, France, Italy and Spain put together
– and London heads the world table of Wi-Fi enabled
cities*, well ahead of Tokyo
and New York.
With more than 1,200 HotSpots in the city’s
coffee shops and hotels and at major transport locations,
laptop users are never far from somewhere to log on
and get internet/intranet access at speeds of up to
1Mbps.
The UK offers a comprehensive choice of voice and
data networks for business people on the move and T-Mobile
brings them all together, providing maximum mobility
with maximum convenience.
Our Mobile Access solution is ideal for business executives
such as BABi members, providing easy access –
with unlimited data use †
– to all three of the UK’s main data bearer
services.
GPRS – the “always-on”
network that keeps you in touch
The basic data service in the UK is the GPRS network,
the “2.5G” data bearer that piggy-backs
on the digital GSM voice network – the standard
in Europe. Some US visitors may have an advantage here:
T-Mobile also provides GSM/GPRS services in the US,
unlike other operators that don’t enable transatlantic
roaming. Like all the major UK mobile networks, T-Mobile
offers GSM/GPRS coverage of over 99% of the population.
But our network is more densely concentrated in business
areas and key transport routes, and its GPRS throughput
capacity is the highest available.
GPRS provides constant communication at relatively
low speeds (typically 56 Kbps) for users of laptops,
PDAs or specialist e-mail devices such as BlackBerry.
Standard text e-mails and smaller attachments can be
viewed and replied to on the move, and low-bandwidth
office applications, data and file downloads become
accessible anywhere, via GPRS.
3G – faster data on the move
UMTS, the technology underpinning 3G, offers much higher
bandwidth, providing data transfer speeds of between
128Kbps and 384Kbps. In the UK, 3G licensees including
T-Mobile are committed to delivering 80% population
coverage by 2007, so the networks are being built and
rolled out rapidly. The T-Mobile 3G network now covers
13 major cities.
Wi-Fi – high speed wireless
internet access
T-Mobile has invested heavily in building wholly-owned
HotSpot networks in the UK and other European countries.
Starbucks, Borders, Texaco and Starwood/Sheraton and
all UK BAA airports are among the partners who provide
T-Mobile HotSpots in the UK. In all, T-Mobile has over
11,500 HotSpot access points worldwide, allowing people
to work away from the office at broadband-speed. Through
more than 2,000 UK HotSpots – either whollyowned
or accessed via a partnership with BT Openzone –
T-Mobile is able to offer log-on speeds of up to 1Mbps
to the laptop user (and increasingly to users of Wi-Fi
enabled PDAs and BlackBerry devices as well). Armed
with these kinds of speeds, business users can access
corporate applications as well as downloading large
files and presentations, even streaming video.
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Three-in-one mobile access solution
leads the field
Launched at the end of 2004, the T-Mobile integrated
Mobile Access package is designed to deliver real and
lasting benefits to business:
- Access to all three data networks from one card/software
package
- A “best available” connection, including
default to GPRS
- Simple, flat-rate monthly pricing, covering all
three networks
- Fixed usage costs (up to 1GB a month) and single
billing
- The best international roaming capabilities available
Consisting of the T-Mobile Communication Centre (TMCC)
software and a single plug-in PC card which accesses
all of the three bearer networks, this is a first for
the UK market. And, as well as providing a one-stop
solution for mobile working in the UK, T-Mobile also
helps customers work in 166 other countries.
Security is vital
As a result of trials with over 100 business customers,
T-Mobile has concentrated on developing compatibility
between its mobile access solution and corporate VPNs.
Leading VPNs have been tested for compatibility, and
the Mobile Access software can be set up to automatically
access the corporate VPN (when authenticated) to ensure
seamless security.
One network worldwide
T-Mobile has a one-network approach and has invested
billions of dollars to create easy international roaming.
With voice (GSM) roaming in 167 countries and the world’s
largest GPRS footprint covering 71 countries, the T-Mobile
network offers arguably the best global connectivity.
Investment in the faster 3G infrastructure is continuing,
with significant coverage in nine European countries
to date; and Wi-Fi connectivity is already available
in six countries, including over 5,000 HotSpots in the
US.
Setting international business
free
We are entering a new age for business. The growth of
GPRS and 3G and the speed and power of Wi-Fi together
with T-Mobile’s comprehensive, packaged service
means that business people are no longer tied to a single
location, but can work anywhere, at any time.
To get connected to T-Mobile’s UK services,
contact T-Mobile on:
Tel: +44 (0)845 412 2200
E-mail: businessenquiries@t-mobile.co.uk
* JiWire.com Feb 2005
† Based on a fair use policy
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