Street Broadband » UK http://streetbroadband.co.uk Internet, technology and true mobility Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Mobile broadband providers: T-Mobile + Orange = 84 % http://streetbroadband.co.uk/mobile-broadband-providers-t-mobile-orange-84/ http://streetbroadband.co.uk/mobile-broadband-providers-t-mobile-orange-84/ #comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:27:55 +0000 alexandra http://streetbroadband.co.uk/?p=445 Some top managers are under apprehension of the future trends in the market of mobile broadband services. They are anxious about possible merger of Orange and T-Mobile, considering it as birth of a new monopolist among mobile broadband providers.

Kevin Russell, 3’s Chief Executive, explains that such “alignment of forces” can concentrate 84% of the UK’s 1800Mhz radio spectrum under the direction of one company.

By the way, this year Orange was announced the best mobile broadband company in the UK. So there is no reason to be surprised that this possible merger attracted the attention of the OFT (the Office of Fair Trading).

]]> http://streetbroadband.co.uk/mobile-broadband-providers-t-mobile-orange-84/ /feed 0 The first LTE-Network was deployed in the UK http://streetbroadband.co.uk/the-first-lte-network-was-deployed-in-the-uk/ http://streetbroadband.co.uk/the-first-lte-network-was-deployed-in-the-uk/ #comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:51:41 +0000 alexandra http://streetbroadband.co.uk/?p=389 The O2 telecommunications company has deployed the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) network standard in Slough, Buckinghamshire.

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The photo of Slough in 1950, quiet life without 4G and even 3G :)

Network deployment was put in charge of the Huawei Chinese company. Now inhabitants of Slough can enjoy high-speed mobile Internet. If the experiment is considered as successful, LTE-network will appear in other parts of the country.

4G-technology was developed to replace the networks of the third 3G generation. Theoretically, a system based on LTE can provide internet speed up to 326 Mbps downloads and to 86 Mbps uploads.

According to Matt Hatton’s words (an analyst from Analysys Mason), many companies are developing now phones with LTE support. Apple is working at its 4G iPhone, and Nokia, the Finnish mobile giant, does believe that LTE is the future of mobile communications.

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