Seems the technological advancement of the United Kingdom at least regarding the latest mobile broadband technology of LTE has experienced a setback. According to a suggestion made by the Independent Spectrum Broker of the United Kingdom, the advancement of plans to encourage the mobile broadband technology would almost be stalled until 2011.

In an interview given to ZDNet, the popular technology website, Kip Meek has revealed that the 2.6GHz spectrum – a muich needed spectrum for the deployment of the Long Term Evolution technology -  auction in the United Kingdom was not expected to take place in 2010.

Meek explained that a number of broadband providers were striving to hold off on any auction, until being convinced that they could carry-out 3G mobile broadband services on the 900MHz band. According to him, that would impact largely on how much the ISPs bid for the fresh band.

Meek added while talking to the technology website that there also existed a few more disputes of various kinds, which collectively meant that the future of spectrum allocation in the United Kingdom was currently uncertain.

It is interesting to note that the comments from Meek comes just about after a month, leading mobile broadband provider of the UK, O2 had carried out a trial oof the Long Term Evolution technology in Slough, which had recorded a 150Mbps cell peak download speed.

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