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Hi,
just read about a great new mobile internet device:

see www.pogo-tech.com

this gives a fast 50kbps transfer over the slow 9.6kbps mobile network in Britain.
It does this by compressing html pages before transmitting them and then de-compressing at the device.

I was wondering, why doesn't someone offer this for normal internet usage with a 56kbps transfer rate. This would get transfer rates upto about 300kbps.

Which would be nice.

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There isn't much technical info on their site with regard to compression, etc...

However, I guess they are using techniques to squeeze every last drop of data throughput from a raw 9600bit stream.

This cannot be applied to a 56k phone connection as the v90 protocol is already squeezing as much data as possible through a raw stream of much lower bandwidth.

56k over analog phone lines is pretty much as good as it gets.

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