Optus Reveals Sydney 4G Phone Trial Data
The trial took place throughout a number of suburbs in Sydney and will now move to a second phase involving more cellphone base stations as well as tests for interaction between the current 2G and 3G Optus mobile phone networks.
Optus is hoping to use the 4G network trials to boost bandwidth for its fast growing smartphone market in Australia....
UK 4G Network Trial in Cornwall
Trials are due to start soon of a new 4G mobile phone network in parts of Cornwall that suffer from poor broadband connectivity. The trials will begin in September this year and will make use of phone frequencies recently freed up by the switch from analogue to digital television services in East Cornwall.Clear Mobitel says the 4G network test aims to gather information on how to best roll out 4G services to other rural areas of the UK which traditionally have had patchy or non-existent mobile broadband coverage. The trial will involve a mobile phone running Google Android as well as USB wireless cards.
Clear Mobitel already has a license to provide 4G phone services to the island of Jersey....
UK 4G Mobile Phone Network Auction in 2011
The UK government has said the frequency spectrum auction for UK 4G mobile phone networks will happen within a year.The 4G auction will cover an area of the 2.6GHz band frequency band as well as frequencies currently being used for analogue services which will become vacant after the digital TV switchover.
The UK 4G auction was originally due to happen in 2008....
4G Sweden Extended to 100 Cities
The joint 4G network in Sweden run by Tele 2 and Telenor is to be extended to 100 cities.The Swedish cities taking part in the 4G rollout should be online by the end of next year and include Gothenburg, Malmo, Karlskrona and Lund - those cities will be getting the 4G mobile phone network this year.
The 4G rollout means 99% of mobile phone users in Sweden will have access to 4G by 2013....
4G Sydney & Melbourne – Unlimited Downloads
Mobile internet provider VividWireless is offering unlimited downloads on its 4G phone network in Sydney and Melbourne.The $75 a month 4G data plan offers unlimited downloads with no usage limit, no peak / off-peak times and no setup fees. It also has a 2GB plan for $19 per month.
Coverage for VividWireless's 4G mobile phone network covers the University of Sydney, University of NSW and UTS. In Melbourne the coverage includes RMIT and Melbourne University....
Telstra Tests 4G Mobile Phone Network in Australia
Australian mobile phone company Telstra has reported mobile download speeds of 100 Mbps over a distance of 75 Kilometers while testing its LTE 4G wireless network in Victoria. The tests are in preparation for a roll out of a full 4G mobile phone network in Australia.Engineers from Telstra and Nokia Siemens Networks conducted the trials between Mount Hope and Mount Burrumboot in central Victoria using Nokia's 4G LTE Flexi Multiradio Base Station and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) along with commercial 4G USB dongles from third-party vendors.
Telstra says the test will help it provide 4G mobile services for remote rural locations in Australia....
FIC 4G Tablet PC
Now that the iPad is such a success we're starting to see other manufacturers appears with their take on the tablet PC. Some of them even have tablets that can connect to 4G mobile phone networks.One such 4G device is the FIC Slate PC a tablet PC that's designed - unlike the iPad - to connect directly to 4G mobile networks.
The 4G connectivity of the PIC Slate PC is made possible by its integration of the industry leading Beceem BCSM250 4G-WiMAX single-chip solution and FIC is expected to release other 4G tablet PCs soon....
Swedish 4G Mobile Phone Network Expands to Visby
Sweden's 4G mobile phone network is being expanded. Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera is launching the 4G network in the city of Visby in Gotland.The new network will cover most of central Visby by the end of this month.
TeliaSonera launched its Stockholm 4G network last year and has plans to have the coverage in 25 cities in Sweden by the end of the year....