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Liberalised Use Spectrum: Choice or Chaos?

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  • 14-09-2012 1:35pm
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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭


    LTE bands worldwide are a mess so it'll be interesting to see how the irish operators allocate their new spectrum, particularly now that the 900Mhz band seems to be unloved by Apple.


    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/13/4g_iphone/
    There are 42 officially recognised bands for LTE, but rollouts are coalescing around the more-popular bands by region, based on what history has made available. In Europe that means 2.6GHz (the 3G-expansion band) and 800MHz (cleared of analogue TV), with 1800MHz popping up in some places including the UK. In America, TV cleared out of the 700MHz band, and never filled the 2.1GHz (3G) band, while in Asia the 850MHz was left largely empty, so what we have is two models of GSM iPhone aimed at the US and Asia, with Europe picking up some dredges from the middle.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    2.6Ghz here is still MMDs

    700MHz to 960MHz is really only good for Voice only Mobile or Fixed Wireless. Average cell speeds in 5MHz channels are just too poor for decent internet.

    1800, 2100, 2300, 2600 are best for LTE, ideally with 6 x 20MHz channels and RAN/single wholesale infrastructure or else the spectrum is too fragmented.

    But Regulators have concentrated too much since 3G licence cash cow on revenue from Licence Auctions rather than real Specrum Planning and Management. Too much on Competition itself rather than the aim of best deal for consumer.

    Personally I have absolute proof of Comreg's total incompetence and their own agenda which breaks Irish law and EU directives.

    Decent "rural" speeds (on average) from ANY mobile system is fantasy. Only "dense" cells with limited geographic coverage can give WiFi hotspot like comparison.

    Don't forget ALL Rural coverage maps are showing borders of 0.12Mbps OUTDOOR coverage. So the Reality of Comreg's proposed LTE coverage in terms of enough signal for decent speed is abysmal. Besides they never have properly audited 3G coverage and speeds, or the NBS would be cancelled and at least one operator should have lost a licence.

    But penalties too are secret.


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