Changes to UK’s wireless access – Mobile Broadband Genie reports

Sept. 30, 2008 - PRLog -- As a result of unsuccessful talks between The Cloud and BT, the partnership will come to an end at 9am on the 2nd October, with both home and business broadband subscribers being affected by the cut-off.

With WiFi access from The Cloud cut off, BT confirmed that their customers would still have access to 3,000 UK hotspots and 40,000 worldwide at various public areas including airports, hotels and city centres.

“This week’s news from The Cloud will be significant for the mobile broadband industry,” explained Gillian Nightingale from Mobile Broadband Genie. “With less opportunity for logging on at dedicated WiFi hotspots, personal connections through mobile broadband dongles will be a far more practical and favourable option.

“If you previously relied on hotspot coverage from The Cloud, and find you no longer have a WiFi spot within easy reach then a Pay As You Go Mobile Broadband dongle could be the perfect alternative.”

Mobile Broadband Genie has a dedicated Pay As You Go search feature that clearly presents you with the most current non-contract mobile broadband deals.

“Browsing through the various Pay As You Go offers from all the available mobile broadband providers you can check up to three items of your choice and click to compare the services,” said Gillian. “A detailed but clear ‘side by side comparison’ gives you the chance to overview important aspects for the services such as download cap, speed and popularity. The Mobile Broadband Genie also has a few words of wisdom, summarising the different services.”

If you’re concerned about the reduction of WiFi hotspots in your area and want to research mobile broadband offers visit http://mobile.broadbandgenie.co.uk.

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Broadband Genie allows users to compare broadband online, and is part of Genie Group.

Genie Group Ltd is a leading independent provider of internet comparison shopping services in the UK, and was set up in 2004 by Philip Wilkinson (co-founder of Kelkoo UK). Genie Group's unique selling point is 'the Genie', which makes personal recommendations to internet shoppers based on ground-breaking, intelligent technology. This gives Genie Group the ability to provide an enjoyable and satisfying internet shopping experience, and deliver an unmatched quality of sales leads to our affiliate merchants. Genie Group launched its flagship broadband comparison service Broadband Genie in January 2005.

More information can be found at http://mobile.broadbandgenie.co.uk. Please direct all media enquiries to Gillian Nightingale. Interviews with Philip Wilkinson can be arranged on request.