We all know that mobile broadband has loads of benefits.

Want to check your Facebook on the move? You can.

Need to put in a late bid on eBay when you're out? You can.

Have to check the football scores subtly when you're out to dinner with you're parents? You can.

However, an expert has recently suggested that businesses also benefit greatly from mobile broadband.

According to editor of the Business Travel Magazine Gill Upton, being able to connect to the web while on the move is "absolutely vital" to jet-setting workers who have to visit different countries as part of their job.

She explained that this is because "keeping in touch with their offices and the ability to work 24/7 is crucial to the business traveller".

Ms Upton went on to state that the next phase of mobile technology is set to make things even easier for businessmen and women when it comes to checking in for a flight and "generally [expediting] their way through an airport".

"Needless to say," she added, "the likes of BlackBerrys and iPhones have revolutionised their working life, almost eradicating the burden of carrying laptops."

Her comments follow news from the Peninsula Times, which reports that Qatar is aiming to build a huge high-speed broadband network in the emirate.

The publication stated that this would offer speeds of 50Mb/s-plus and was announced by Sheikh Hessa Al Jaber, the secretary-general of ictQatar, which is the chief of Qatar's telecommunications regulatory authority.

This network, she said, would help stimulate investment in new business.

Categories: Wireless Broadband

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