The UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced a new £35 million partnership between mobile phone operators, telecoms equipment makers and the University of Surrey that aims to develop the 5th Generation (5G) of Mobile Broadband technologies. Never mind the fact that 4G superfast cellular mobile services haven’t even gone live [...]
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UK Commits GBP35m to Develop Next Generation 5G Mobile Broadband Tech
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Ofcom Plan for Future 5G Mobile Broadband and 700MHz Spectrum Release
Ofcom has today begun to set out plans that will eventually enable the release of new airwaves (UHF radio spectrum), such as the controversial 700MHz and 600MHz band used by Digital TV services, which could be used by a future generation of 5G Mobile Broadband or WiFi style internet solutions. But it will be 2018 [...]
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Europe Follows UK to Develop Future 5G Mobile Broadband for 2020
The European Commission (EC) has today committed £43 million (€50m) to help research future 5G (5th Generation) based Mobile Broadband technologies for launch by 2020, which could one day deliver peak service speeds of up to 10Gbps or possibly even 100Gbps (Gigabits per second). The development mirrors the UK government’s commitment of £35 million last [...]
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Ofcom Moves to Free UK Airwaves for Ultrafast 5G Mobile Broadband
The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today issued a new “scoping document” (call for inputs) that will help to determine how existing radio spectrum in the UHF 700MHz (Digital TV) frequency band could be freed up for use by the next (5th) generation of future ultra-fast 5G based Mobile Broadband services. Lower frequency spectrum (e.g. 700MHz) has [...]
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Huawei Expect 5G Mobile Broadband to Give Everybody Speeds of 10Gbps
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has said that the next generation of 5G based Mobile Broadband technology, which it says should “emerge in the market between 2020 and 2030“, will ultimately allow “every person” to access wireless internet download speeds of 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) via their mobile operator. Huawei is one of several major companies, [...]
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Ofcom Say New Freeview HD TV Channels at 600MHz Won’t Hinder 5G
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has warned that today’s move by Ofcom (here), which has created the “opportunity” for 10 new Freeview HD TV channels to be launched by using airwaves in the 600MHz radio spectrum band, could hinder the plan to free up existing 700MHz spectrum for use by future ultra-fast 5G based Mobile Broadband [...]
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Ofcom Names Participants for its UK White Space Wireless Broadband Trial
The UK telecoms regulator has today named around 20 organisations, which include the likes of BT, Neul and Microsoft, that will be taking part in its 6 month pilot of White Space (IEEE 802.22) wireless broadband technology; this intelligently harnesses the unused spectrum gaps that exist between Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV) channels. Each organisation will […]
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UK Next Gen 5G Mobile Broadband Development Centre Gets a Timetable
Ofcom has revealed that the UK government’s £35 million+ investment to setup a 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, which will be used to develop the next (5th) generation of ultrafast Mobile Broadband technology, is due to be completed by the start of 2015. As first revealed over on year ago (here), […]
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Marketing Fun as 6G Broadband Network Goes Live in Blackburn UK
Sometimes marketing can be misleading (e.g. calling FTTC or cable lines “fibre optic”) and the same could perhaps be said of 6G Internet, which has just launched a new wireless broadband network in Blackburn (Lancashire, England) and for added confusion fun they’re calling the technology “Air Fibre” (they’re not the first to use that). ISPreview.co.uk […]
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Ofcom Begins Consultation on Future Spectrum for UK Mobile Broadband
The telecoms regulator has today launched an all-encompassing Mobile Data Strategy consultation that will attempt to identify and free-up a maximum of 881MHz in additional downlink radio spectrum (the 600MHz, 700MHz, 2.3GHz, 2.7GHz, 3.4GHz and 3.7GHz bands) for use by superfast 4G and future 5G style Mobile Broadband services. Ofcom currently predicts that demand for […]
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Government Moots Future UK Digital Infrastructure Needs for 2025-30
The Government has today called for feedback on their plans to develop a future digital communications infrastructure strategy, which aims to design a long-term plan for building even faster broadband networks, supporting the roll-out of IPv6 Internet addresses and developing 5G based Mobile Broadband technology etc. The terms of reference for this strategy, which seeks […]
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Ofcom Shun WiFi Interference Fears to Prep 2.3GHz Auction for Mobile
The communications regulator has assessed the impact for both licensed and licence-exempt uses of the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz radio spectrum bands and found that the risk of interference with other services, such as WiFi (adjacent 2.4GHz band), did exist but wasn’t big enough to be worth worrying about. The spectrum, which includes 40MHz in the […]
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UPDATE David Cameron – Instant 800MB UK Film Downloads via 5G Mobile
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, has joined forces with Germany to develop the next generation of ultrafast 5G based Mobile Broadband technology, which will apparently only take “one second” to download an 800MB (MegaByte) film. In reality, it won’t be quite that fast. Cameron told the opening ceremony for the world’s […]
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4G Mobile Broadband Could Doom Public WiFi Wireless Internet Hotspots
Public WiFi hotspots have become increasingly common over the past few years and now even the government’s £150m Super-Connected Cities Programme (SCCP) is seeking to boost their coverage. But is such investment becoming a waste of money and might we be about to witness the end of public wifi as we know it. Back when […]
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Ofcom Publish UK Radio Spectrum Management Strategy and Interactive Map
The communications regulator has today set out its approach and priorities (e.g. future 5G mobile broadband) for managing and sharing (e.g. white space technology) the country’s radio spectrum up to the year 2025. As part of this, Ofcom has also published an Interactive Spectrum Map to show how different frequencies are used in the United […]
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UPDATE Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan
The standard for the next generation of 5G mobile communications technology is still being debated, yet that hasn’t stopped telecoms giant Ericsson from teaming up with Japanese mobile firm NTT DOCOMO to test its own 10Gbps+ (Gigabits per second) capable solution in Yokosuka; albeit using the 15GHz radio frequency band. NTT DOCOMO has always been one of […]
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Fluidata MD – Somebody Should Tell BT the Copper Phone Line is Dead
The outspoken boss of business ISP Fluidata, Piers Daniell, has predicted that the latest generation of fibre optic (FTTP/H) broadband connectivity will steadily remove the need for consumer to be forced into paying for a copper-line Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) on top of their Internet connectivity, but for BT it’s still too much of […]
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90,000 UK Homes Must Change TV Aerial to Help Mobile Broadband Grow
The national UK telecoms regulator has today launched several new consultations on its plan to release existing radio spectrum in the UHF 700MHz (Digital TV) frequency band so that faster Mobile Broadband (e.g. 4G and 5G) services can be launched in the same frequency by 2020 – 2022. Ofcom are already planning to award additional […]
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EU and South Korea Agree Joint 5G Mobile Broadband Development Deal
The next generation of 5G based Mobile Broadband services, which could deliver speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) or more, appeared to come a step closer today after Europe and South Korea signed a new deal that will see both working jointly towards a global definition of the new standard and to cooperate […]
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VIDEO Ericsson Demo 5G Mobile Broadband at Speeds of 5800Mbps
Telecoms giants Ericsson and Japanese operator NTT DOCOMO have taken their experimental 5G based Mobile Broadband technology a step forward by conducting one of the first live, over-the-air, demonstrations of the new service running at speeds of 5.8Gbps (Gigabits per second) using the 15GHz band of radio spectrum. Readers might recall that Ericsson officially teamed […]
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