The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will this week announce the UK capital city’s long term infrastructure investment plan to 2050 and predicted that the “world’s first” major deployment of future 5G based Mobile Broadband technology will also be rolled out there by 2020. Obviously. According to the Telegraph, Boris said, “London is earning a reputation […]
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Boris Promises 5G Mobile and Faster Broadband in London City by 2020
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UK Moots Switching Off Copper Phone Networks and Fostering FTTP
The Government has today launched a new Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation document, which forms part of their effort to develop a long term strategy for helping to ensure that the United Kingdom has the “best connectivity” by 2025-2030 (phone, broadband, mobile etc.). The consultation, which is focused on gathering evidence from the industry and […]
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VIDEO Samsung Demo Next Gen 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds of 7.5Gbps
Electronics giant Samsung claims to have successfully delivered record setting Mobile Broadband speeds of a staggering 7.5Gbps (Gigabits per second) using a prototype of their next generation 5G technology, with the uninterrupted speeds falling away to 1.2Gbps when the service was tested while travelling at just over 60Mph (Miles per hour) on a 4.35km long […]
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Ofcom Set Late 2015 Auction for 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz Mobile Broadband Bands
The national UK telecoms regulator has today confirmed that it plans to conduct an auction of spare radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands during late 2015 or early 2016, which is most likely to be snapped up by mobile operators (e.g. Three UK, Vodafone, O2 and EE) for use in the delivery of […]
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Ofcom UK Make 700MHz TV Spectrum Band Available for Mobile Broadband
As widely expected Ofcom has today announced a decision to make radio spectrum in the 700MHz band, which is currently used for Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) channels, available for use via future Mobile Broadband (4G, 5G) services by the start of 2022. Get ready to re-tune your TV or set-top-box. The move will effectively force […]
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The Top Broadband ISP Technology and Internet Policy Changes for 2014-15
The past year has been all about technology and deployment, with the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK scheme dominating via its efforts to push BT’s 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) service out to even more areas, but a lot more than that has happened. ISPreview.co.uk highlights some the key Internet technology, policy and anti-piracy developments of 2014 and […]
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Ofcom Open 5G Mobile Broadband Consultation on Spectrum Above 6GHz
The UK telecoms regulator has started a new consultation that seeks feedback on whether radio spectrum bands above 6GHz could be used for the future 5th generation (5G) of ultrafast Mobile Broadband connectivity, which many predict will be able to offer peak / shared performance of up to or beyond 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) by […]
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UK Based TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps mmW Wireless Broadband
A team of international scientists working out of Lancaster University in England have officially kicked off a new consortium called TWEETHER, which aims to harness the millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum (specifically 92-95GHz) in order to develop a new wireless network that could offer economical broadband connectivity with a capacity up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per […]
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UPDATE University of Surrey Claims 1Tbps Speed via 5G Mobile Technology
Researchers working on the future 5th generation (5G) of Mobile Broadband technology at the University of Surrey in England claim to have achieved a staggering transfer speed of 1Tbps (Terabit per second), or 1,000,000Mbps (Megabits) in more familiar language, over their candidate technology. The claimed performance, which is far in advance of the 10Gbps to […]
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UPDATE Ofcom in Major UK Strategic Review of all things Broadband and Telco
The United Kingdom’s national telecoms regulator has today announced the start of a major strategic review into the country’s digital communications market, which could have significant implications. It will look at everything from competition and investment, to future innovation and the availability of broadband, phone and mobile services. Admittedly Ofcom are constantly conducting reviews of […]
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UK Government Suddenly Moots 6G Mobile Networks – Before 5G Exists
At present the next generation of 5G based Mobile Broadband networks haven’t even been defined and the first commercial services aren’t expected to surface until around 2020. But that hasn’t stopped the Government from putting an early investment towards the distant future 6th Generation (6G) replacement for 5G. Well, sort of. Admittedly the Government aren’t […]
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5G Mobile is in Danger of Becoming the Next M2 Bradley Tank
Let’s get something straight, the next generation of 5G mobile technology probably won’t bring about world peace, fix famine, cure cancer or save that baby from a burning building; at least not literally. It’s a telecoms network upgrade, not superman. But in listening to some of the politicians speak you’d be forgiven for thinking that […]
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Nokia Networks Demos 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds of 10Gbps
Nokia Networks and National Instruments (NI) have demonstrated a future 5G technology that can deliver peak rate Mobile Broadband data speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second), but as usual there’s a catch in the choice of frequency band. The demo is taking placing at a summit in Brooklyn, which shows how the 10Gbps […]
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Ofcom Identifies Candidate Spectrum for Future 5G Mobile Broadband
The United Kingdom’s telecoms regulator has today published an update on their preliminary work to design a regulatory approach for future 5G (5th Generation) based Mobile Broadband technology, which identifies several bands in different parts of the 6GHz to 100GHz radio spectrum range that could be candidates for the service. Broadly speaking 5G will need […]
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Hmm.. Angie Pledges 10Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband to 3 Million UK Premises
Who? A strange and unexpected press release just crossed our desk, which stems from a company in the Netherlands that we’ve not heard of before, Angie Communications. Essentially they plan to “aggressively” rollout a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 3 million premises and make “4.5G” and 5G mobile broadband available to 95% and 90% of […]
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ITU Begins to Build Future Standard for 5G Mobile Broadband Tech
The International Telecommunication Union has started a new Focus Group, which will help them to identify the network standardization requirements for future 5G based Mobile Broadband technologies. Related services are due to surface around 2020 and often tout peak data speeds of anything from 10Gbps to 100Gbps (Gigabits per second). At present multiple teams around […]
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Ofcom Confirm Auction Details for the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz Spectrum Bands
The United Kingdom’s telecoms regulator has launched a new consultation on their proposed design for the late 2015 or early 2016 auction of radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands, which could be used for high-capacity Mobile Broadband connectivity (e.g. 4G). But some of the spectrum may be held back until the on-going market […]
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Pro-Broadband Ofcom Begins Review of UK Satellite Radio Spectrum Use
The United Kingdom’s telecoms regulator has today signalled the start of yet another strategic review, which this time will examine the radio spectrum use of space-based science and satellite communication services. Ofcom’s review could affect the future availability of frequencies for 5G and other broadband technologies. At this stage the review merely consists of a […]
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New Map of London UK Shows Slow Broadband is Like a Digital Cancer
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today launched a “major drive” to boost broadband connectivity in the capital, although it’s mostly the same stuff as we saw being announced last year. At least there’s now a map to depict just how bad the situation is, especially in the city centre. But today’s announcement was […]
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ITU Hands Future 5G Mobile Broadband Tech a Target Speed of 20Gbps
The International Telecommunication Union has put a lid on the debate over the peak performance capabilities of future 5G (IMT-2020) based Mobile Broadband technology by defining its top speed as 20Gbps (Gigabits per second), which is 20 times faster than the 4G (IMT-Advanced) rate of 1Gbps. At this point it’s worth remembering that, in order to […]
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