New Spectrum Auction 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz
enapace
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New spectrum auction
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/09/ofcom-uk-prep-auction-2-3ghz-3-4ghz-4g-mobile-broadband.html
Looks like more spectrum is coming up for grabs.
2.3GHz is likely extremely important for O2 and Three as they didn't manage to get any 2.6GHz.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/09/ofcom-uk-prep-auction-2-3ghz-3-4ghz-4g-mobile-broadband.html
Looks like more spectrum is coming up for grabs.
2.3GHz is likely extremely important for O2 and Three as they didn't manage to get any 2.6GHz.
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I see 2300 is band 40 and 3500 is band 42.
Can't find a 3400 band though.
In fairness it says 3400MHz and up so it probably is the 3500MHz band. There is a 150MHz on offer.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
That model would work perfectly fine in the UK for all other bands as well. So we could have had that as our UK model.
Guess Apple are holding it back so they can have a selling point for iPhone 6 in the UK though.... :rolleyes:
Like i said before, I 100% agree with your thoughts enapace.
I never saw this thread at all originally but I seemed to have posted about 2300 and 3500 in another thread.
2300 will indeed be band 40. 3500 (which is what this slots into) would be band 22 (FDD) and band 42 (TDD).
So it would of been far better for us to get the asian-australian model shame. Thanks for clarification on the bands. Will be interesting to see who bids for what.
You wouldn't happen to know how much 1900MHz each network has would you? Or which LTE band it falls under I know it TDD.
Probably just more of a regional thing as the UK gets the European model. Hopefully by this time next year it will be all frequencies in one model creating a world LTE phone. I believe I read that a chip was created earlier this year that could work on many/all the world LTE frequencies, but it probably isn't a cheap enough option yet, or isn't ready for mass market.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/public-sector-spectrum-release/summary/condoc.pdf
I suspect any auction will be a while from now.
Yeah that is what I meant. Interesting to hear they excluded it imagine EE could do something with 10MHz of TDD not sure if 5MHz of TDD is useful or not. Thanks for clarification.
Can't see how it could if the military have been using it for years and never been a problem before. But you right I am sure they will look into that.
The Military have loads of spectrum most of which they don't use and in many cases haven't used for a very long time. Hence Ofcom have persuade them to give it up. On some bands the MoD let other users have access to on a secondary basis as long as they didn't cause interference.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/2.3-3.4-ghz/summary
I suspect the MOD will have objected regarding Northern Ireland.
Also, where will this end? What other bands are going to be up for grabs at some point?
Is that where you place a bid on an old Sinclair computer on EBay
I'll have that one with the built in tape deck
Very likely that is true.
I expect it will be used for fixed line 4G most likely similar to what company UKBroadband does.
I would bet my mortgage that this is true. The way out police and military work and the conditions under which they work are very different to that of the mainland.
True it just seems a shame that NI are going to miss out on this as I expect it will prove very beneficial in time.