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Our cash-strapped MoD is about to receive a bit of a windfall, thanks to plans to sell off a chunk of radio spectrum it currently uses for emergency services.
The MoD says it owns around 75 percent of the usable 4G spectrum currently in public ownership, and it’s got way more than it needs. Hence the sale. The plan will increase the amount of capacity for 4G in the UK, although the handover isn’t scheduled to be completed until 2014, so there’s still quite some way to go before we’re all gasping in amazement at our mobile speed test results.
Philip Dunne, the minister for defence equipment, support and technology, said: “We hope that the sale will help drive the roll-out of new generation networks and universal access to broadband, both of which are vital to the UK’s prosperity.” [BBC via Techradar]
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personally for me 4G is the bit of tech i am least excited about.
am not sure if that’s because
A, i don’t need it for my mobile web usage
or
B, greedy phone companies are charging extortionate amounts for it
You should write a blog. I’ve never heard these two points discussed before.
are you sure? can you link me to the articles as i may have missed them
Meowww!!!!
What frequency?
Found it:
The 500 MHz of spectrum to be released between now and 2020 is various blocks, with some as small as 2 MHz. The two big blocks are 2310-2400 MHz which will be auctioned in 2013/2014 and 3410-3600 MHz following in 2015/2016.
The other bands likely to appear in the next few years are 870–872 MHz paired with 915–917 MHz, 1427–1452 MHz, 2025–2070 MHz, 4800–4900 MHz and 10-10.125 GHz.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mod-to-auction-off-radio-spectrum
https://www.gov.uk/sharing-defence-spectrum
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