Boris Promises 5G Mobile and Faster Broadband in London City by 2020
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...
View ArticleUK 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...
View ArticleVIDEO 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...
View ArticleOfcom 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...
View ArticleOfcom 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...
View ArticleThe 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)...
View ArticleOfcom 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...
View ArticleUK 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...
View ArticleUPDATE 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...
View ArticleUPDATE 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....
View ArticleUK 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...
View Article5G 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...
View ArticleNokia 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...
View ArticleOfcom 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...
View ArticleHmm.. 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...
View ArticleITU 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....
View ArticleOfcom 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...
View ArticlePro-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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleITU 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...
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