Originally Posted by Skippy2005:
“Another question, providing O2 rollout their 1800mhz for 4G properly with the correct backhaul and to enough sites! What sort of speeds are we looking at minus congestion? Around 30mb?? And in theory what sort of speeds if they are CA with 800mhz? Would O2 likely rollout of 1800mhz as MIMO to increase capacity??
Also do you think they will need to do a nationwide rollout given they could soon be part of 3, or could it be ploy to safeguard their spectrum like EE have ensuring they are using it all to avoid a sell off??
Thanks ❓”
“Another question, providing O2 rollout their 1800mhz for 4G properly with the correct backhaul and to enough sites! What sort of speeds are we looking at minus congestion? Around 30mb?? And in theory what sort of speeds if they are CA with 800mhz? Would O2 likely rollout of 1800mhz as MIMO to increase capacity??
Also do you think they will need to do a nationwide rollout given they could soon be part of 3, or could it be ploy to safeguard their spectrum like EE have ensuring they are using it all to avoid a sell off??
Thanks ❓”
Denco's post above gives a good idea of the extra speed possible with this. I'd say though that as it will probably be used more in busy areas the actual increase will be much smaller than average in absolute terms (although large in percentage terms) but a few extra Mb/s is always welcome.
I don't think it has anything to do with the Three deal (which isn't even being looked at by the authorities yet). In any case the spectrum is already being used by them. They are just repurposing it.




