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Cornwall to get real-world '4G' LTE trial

A live customer trial of the '4G' mobile broadband technology LTE is to take place in Cornwall, with collaborators Everything Everywhere... Read more

25 May, 2011
Researchers test Wi-Fi via TV antennas

Researchers test Wi-Fi via TV antennas

...Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has started testing its wireless broadband technology, which uses existing TV antennas, at the first National Broadband Network... Read more

17 December, 2010 by Josh Taylor

West Wales gets 800MHz LTE trial

Alcatel-Lucent and Arqiva have announced a trial of '4G' LTE mobile broadband technology in the west of Wales. The Preseli Mountains trial, which is... Read more

8 December, 2010
Practical Performance Measurements and Analysis of IEEE 802.16 Networks

Practical Performance Measurements and Analysis of IEEE 802.16 Networks

IEEE 802.16 standard defines the wireless broadband technology called WiMAX. When compared to other wireless technologies, it introduces many... Read more

11 July, 2011
Facilitating the Network Entry and Link Establishment Processes of IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks

Facilitating the Network Entry and Link Establishment Processes of IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks

The IEEE 802.16 standard is a promising next-generation broadband technology. It contains two operational modes - PMP and mesh. The PMP mode... Read more

1 January, 2011

O2 turns on London 4G trial

...O2 has begun a trial of the 4G mobile broadband technology LTE in London, the operator said on Monday. The nine-month... Read more

14 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Copper not dead for super-fast broadband, says BT

...Dimes, chief executive of Alcatel-Lucent UK and Ireland said that vectoring broadband technology (VDSL) could take copper-based broadband speeds up to more than... Read more

11 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Study: 4G delays cost UK businesses £730m a year

...UK lags behind countries around the world in introducing the '4G' mobile broadband technology LTE. That delay is responsible for more than 37 million wasted... Read more

4 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Microsoft, BT test white-space broadband in Cambridge

...Microsoft, BT, the BBC and Nokia will test out white-space broadband technology in Cambridge, the companies said as they launched a new consortium... Read more

27 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Ofcom lays out rules for 4G auction

...ensuring there is sufficient competition and coverage when the high-speed mobile broadband technology is deployed in the UK.Ofcom's proposed spectrum auction rules... Read more

22 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Hill farmers to get £20m for rural broadband

...to ensure that Cardiff boasts some of the best access to modern broadband technology in the UK, but residents in some enabled areas of Cardiff... Read more

11 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Average broadband speeds still not half what's advertised

...by at least half the ISP's customers, and would vary by broadband technology type - with an up-to-8Mbps ADSL package translating into a... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Ofcom calls for right to block spectrum trades

...of 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum, which is suitable for 4G mobile broadband technology. The regulator was ordered to free up the trade in 900MHz... Read more

3 February, 2011

1Gbps broadband: BT tests out its fattest fat pipe yet

...to test the technical limits of its fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband technology, and also establish that FTTH can support upstream speeds as high... Read more

3 December, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Superfast broadband: UK slow on the uptake?

...fibre-based services. Superfast broadband is the next generation of fixed line broadband technology, incorporating fibre optic line into the network to support download speeds... Read more

3 December, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

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