Ben's Talk3G Blog

There's a theme that has driven me all my life. At nursery school I'd connect together all the toys. The staff said this wasn't a problem in itself, but it did become problematic when, post connection, I'd disallow any of the other children to play with them. Paper cups and string. Fairy lights were amazing to me; all those little bulbs connected up together. When a friend, for reasons that still escape me, was given a pager by his parents I was truly misty-eyed and, admittedly, incredibly jealous ...

I could've sworn blind that by now almost every laptop rolling off of the production lines would have a SIM slot as standard. Like WiFi, 3G connectivity would become the norm, and new tariff structures from mobile operators would have made connectivity accessible to all.

That hasn't happened. Is it because people don't want or need a continuous Internet connection when they're mobile? No, I don't think that's true - if 3G were ubiquitous then we'd all just connect and make the most ...