Mobile Networks

The problem with Mobile Broadband is that it's a black box. Sure, an Internet connection in the Mbps shoots out one end, but the user has no idea about what happens in the middle.

For a certain market, that's fine. Home networking and home routers have always been somewhat mystifying. However, as the plug-in-and-go market becomes saturated, the mobile operators will need to provide new levels of flexibility on Mobile Broadband and open it up so the end user can control what's going ...

Consumer Mobile Broadband brings with it new challenges for security. The mobile networks are a black box, and we know very little about what happens to our data while it passes through. Image compression is one thing we do know about, mobile networks will often squeeze all of your images to save themselves precious bits and bytes - and this can even involve inserting code into the websites you view. So, today I'm going to look at how we can take back control.

Back in the olden days ...