4g Wireless: The Next Frontier In Internet Technology
Trekking from Starbucks to Starbucks, searching for the elusive free table, only stopping to dream it will be near a power source. For college students, looking for a place to cram during finals week can be as stressful as studying itself. As campus locations with wireless internet are numbered, often students are forced to travel great distances in search of a free chair. While this problem is exacerbated in a major way during mid-term and finals periods, it is a general issue for many throughout the academic year. For those who do not find the sometimes stale, sterile environment of the university library conducive to efficient studying, coffee shops are often the desired alternative. Yet, as studying in cafes like Panera and Starbucks becomes increasingly popular among today's co-eds, it is also becoming more and more competitive to ensure that one will be able to find a spot during peak hours. Since internet access has always been available in particular isolated shops, students are, somewhat counter-intuitively, forced to migrate to the same already highly concentrated locales. At the same time, numerous other non-internet friendly cafes and restaurants remain quiet, housing countless empty chairs and tables, power outlets and coffee machines, all sitting, waiting, ready to be used.
Luckily for the thousands of frustrated college students, there is a solution in sight! 4G wireless internet is the next generation of broadband wireless services; providing coverage to subscribers at an unprecedented level of convenience. While coverage has not yet extended to the entire United States, the cities that do currently have access, including LA, Atlanta, and Portland, are introducing local internet users to a whole new way of connecting! With 4G wireless, gone are the days in which you had to travel from location to location in search of wireless internet access. When you subscribe to a 4G wireless network, you carry the internet with you. Wherever you go, within the coverage area, you can gain easy, quick access to suit all of your email and internet needs.
When customers purchase a 4G wireless package, they are paying to receive a mobile internet service, rather than simply internet coverage in their home or apartment. 4G allows students to no longer be limited in study location choices by what cafes choose to purchase wireless access. For the economics majors, seeking to minimize their costs, 4G allows for the same internet access one would gain with a traditional wireless plan for their apartment, while also giving the flexibility to take this access to go. Anywhere students take their computer, within the coverage area, internet access will be there. Such a technological development appears to be the next big trend in internet usage for today's college generation. Students can bring their computers to lectures and directly Wikipedia confusing terms or ideas, while in the midst of taking notes. Time spent between classes no longer has to be wasted by simply waiting around, now students can use these 20 minutes each morning to get a head start on their essays for the next week. Students can gain the necessary internet access to study beneath the trees in the park or at a friend's apartment before beginning a group project. With 4G, looking for the right place to study becomes a simple, leisurely activity, rather than a stressful, cumbersome chore.
