WiBE To Deliver Broadband To Rural Areas

A British firm believes that it might have the solution to the UK’s rural broadband problem with its wireless broadband enabler (WiBE), a gadget that uses the mobile broadband network to supply a local hotspot offering 2 Mbps.

According to Deltenna, the company behind this gadget, the WiBE searches for the strongest mobile signal and then configures the internal aerial, enabling the gadget to offer strong broadband connection even in spots where a phone is unable to pick up a 3G signal.

The device has a maximum speed limit of 7.2 Mbps, but with tests in a rural situation the device has managed to frequently attain a broadband connection speed of 2.8 Mbps.

The issue is that the mobile network is unable to sustain a strong signal for a long period of time.