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So, BlackBerry’s finally pushed a new flagship out, and like any good flagship phone it’s packing LTE. In fact, it’s available on 4G right now, thanks to EE. The most interesting thing, however, is it’ll also potentially support the other UK networks’ 4G — Vodafone calls it “4G-ready” — but, there’s one small issue: Only one of our UK 4G auction bands is actually supported.
Having a quick butchers at the official specifications listed by BlackBerry in the UK for its shiny new Z10, which launches today by the way, shows that it’ll happily support EE’s 1800MHz LTE band. That’s great, another 4G phone you can buy right now. Even better is that it also supports the 2.6GHz band that seven different providers are duking it out over right this minute.
The problem is, the UK LTE landscape isn’t just 1800MHz and 2.6GHz — the official 4G auction is also selling off the tasty 800MHz band. That’s the one that will likely be most hotly contested because it has the potential to provide a greater network coverage footprint from fewer masts. The 800MHz frequency, in theory, should go further in open space, and penetrate deeper into buildings, meaning you get LTE coverage everywhere.
If the Z10 really does only support UK 4G on the 1800 and 2600MHz bands and not the 800MHz band, it might make getting an LTE lock outside of cities a bit of an issue, even if your network actually has full 800MHz-powered 4G signal out there. So, while this might just be a slip-up on the tech-specs side of BlackBerry’s site, something tells me the “4G-ready” Z10 might be gimped when it comes to full UK 4G support. [BlackBerry]
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So if Vodafone win 800Mhz that they are fighting for desperately, it will be 4G-Ready, just not with them
I’m guessing all the networks will try for a chunk of both. But the 800MHz band will be more heavily fought over.
Of course this is on the pretence that BB won’t be offering a model with a supporting chip in it at a later date? Because that’s whats happening with the iPhone. Why release it now if its not needed. 5G is being developed why not future proof EVERYTHING?!
Nobody is going to leave themselves exposed to such a faux pas whereby they can’t sell their devices because a network doesn’t support the req frequency.
4G is raved about too much anyway. Quite happily getting 12.6Mbps over 3G here with a 57ms ping.
all these bands and seperation is just annoying.. i don’t think a phone can call itself 4g if they can’t support all bands
LTE Band 20 is 800MHz NOT 700MHz
At least this is better than the iPhone 5 where 4G will only ever work with EE