Linux-Based 802.11Router Enables 3G Broadband

The Swedish company Possio AB has launched a Linux-based wireless access point that allows users to connect to the Internet through 3G mobile telephone networks. According to Possio, the PX30 access point can bring broadband wireless Internet service to small sites such as cafes, temporary hotspots such as building and event sites, mobile hot-spots such as buses and limos, and hot-spots in locations without a wired backhaul alternative. It can also be used, Possio says, by mobile-only carriers wishing to offer broadband Internet service, and in data acquisition and remote management applications such as M2M (machine-to-machine) applications.

It would also be an alternative for those who have no other broadband Internet access available to them. Cell networks are easier and cheaper to roll out than physically wired networks, so it might give someone access to the Internet that might otherwise be impossible.

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