Wait until 2011 for 4G Mobile Broadband in the UK
February 6, 2010
Extenuating circumstances prevailing in the economic and technology sectors of the United Kingdom has virtually forced back the plan for Long Term Evolution technology-based mobile broadband service rollout across the country, until 2011.
It has been declared by the independent spectrum broker of the government, Kip Meek that the 2.6GHz spectrum band auction, which would have driven the LTE run across the country, was unlikely to happen this year. The 2.6GHz band is considered ideal for the deployment of 4G mobile broadband services.
Meanwhile, the Long Term Evolution technology-based mobile broadband service that could have been supported by the fresh system is greatly significant in the country currently, for its providing maximum downstream speeds of up to 100Mbps. Read it along with another news that the country is lagging in the 26th place among the world’s broadband internet enabled countries, according to a fresh research.
The reason for the impossibility of implementing the fresh service points towards a combination of problems such as; the absence of a vivid consensus amongst relevant parties over the 900MHz spectrum, which has been largely depended upon for 2G mobile services, BT’s legal challenge and impending election. This band is crucial for it can also be reworked to suit the use of 3G mobile broadband services.
Another band proposed for mobile broadband use in the UK is the 800MHz spectrum that is used for the traditional analogue TV service at present. Nevertheless, this proposed move also has been stalled to a considerable extent owing to many of the aforementioned issues.
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