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Any news on LTE in Ireland?

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  • 02-06-2013 6:54pm
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    PhilMcGee
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭


    With Eircoms revelation that those of us more than 1Km from our nearest cabinet wont be getting eFibre, it looks like the only hope for those of us who cant get BB at the moment is LTE.
    Is there any news on LTE. I heard it was supposed to be rolled out by three in August, but they seem to be very quiete on that lately.
    With LTE how close do you have to be to the mast? Does it have a greater range than current mobile BB?


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


    LTE once it has customers will be NO better than 3G, especially with it being 800MHz rather than 1.8GHz to 2.6GHz bands and the small size allocations and too many operators splitting up the spectrum.

    LTE is no hope at all as an alternate to Broadband. Also it will be expensive in the long term unless it's to make a loss for ever. Currently 3G Data is massively subsidized by Voice and SMS for Meteor, O2, Vodafone (but not Three as they don't have enough voice customers so make a loss).

    You need to be within about 1.5km of mast and no other users on the mast for any reasonable speed.

    There is NO Mobile BB. It's ALL Mobile Internet!

    No-one anywhere in the world does mobile Broadband. The only real Broadband by Wireless uses FIXED outdoor high gain aerials.


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    Ampolo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Ampolo


    There needs to be a *lot* more focus on fixed-wireless-access (FWA) to get speeds equivalent to VDSL.


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


    As long as Mobile operators are allowed to cross-subsidise Data with voice revenue and mis-sell their packages there will be no more Fixed Wireless investment.

    The NBS was the final nail in the coffin and the 2008 Burst removed 99% of the existing investors in Fixed Wireless for the existing WISPs.


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