Swedish 4G Mobile Phone Network Expands to Visby
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....
4G Mobile TV Trial in Chile
Aspiro, the Swedish mobile content provider, has announced that it's involved with trials for a high speed 4G mobile TV network in Chile.The trial, conducted through Aspiro's subsidiary company, Rubberduck Media Lab, is being carried out with Chile mobile carrier Entel PCS.
The tests are the first of their kind in Latin America and follow Rubberduck's successful 3G mobile TV service which runs on Entel....
Germany Prepares for 4G Mobile Phone Networks
Germany's auction of 4G network spectrum has moved up a notch with mobile phone companies bidding a total €3.73 billion by the time the hammer fell on the auction this week.Four mobile operators took part in the auction - Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and E-Plus, the German subsidiary of Dutch mobile phone company KPN. The main focus for bidders was the potentially lucrative 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz network bands which are best suited for the new, faster 4G services that operators hope to make money on.
The German 4G auction is expected to raise €6 billion and €8 billion. Other countries in Europe are due to hold their own network auctions between now and the end of next year....
4G Mobile Phone Picks Up Speed in Scandinavia
Mobile phone industry analysts are predicting 4G phone services won't take off in a big way in Scandinavia until around 2013.Swedish / Finnish 4G mobile phone operator TeliaSonera estimates that out of 400,000 potential customers in Stockholm and Oslo only around 1000 have so far subscribed to 4G. TeliaSonera is in the process of expanding its 4G network to another 25 cities in Sweden and 5 cities in Norway.
The first 4G phones will only become available this summer and mobile industry analysts say take up will accelerate when services currently available for data modems and wireless cards only are also available on compatible mobile phones....
Denmark 4G – TeliaSonera Wins License
Mobile phone company TeliaSonera has won a license to operate a new 4G mobile phone network in Denmark. The company expects to start offering the new network to customers in the Spring of 2011.TeliaSonera already has 4G phone networks in Sweden, Norway and Finland and was the first company to offer a full commercial 4G phone network to mobile phone users with the launch of its city networks in Stockholm and Oslo.
The license lasts for twenty years and will provide speeds of around ten times that of 3G....
EC Approves 4G Mobile Broadband for Europe
The European Commission has approved plans that will use the frequency space currently being used by across Europe by analogue television stations for a new pan-Europe 4G mobile phone network.Individual European member states will be encouraged by the EC to allocate the 800 Mhz frequency band to 4G mobile internet services in an attempt to implement a 4G mobile network that will work anywhere in Europe. Most European countries are already moving from analogue to digital television broadcasts.
According to mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson, mobile broadband usage is expected to rise from 400 million users to 3.5 billion users worldwide by 2015....
UK 4G Mobile Phone Networks Face Delays
Mobile broadband analysts Ovum have warned that the rollout of 4G mobile phones services in the UK maybe delayed until at least 2013 because of the recent election and financial crisis.Cross-party plans to hold a 4G auction around the 800MHz frequency band - which is currently still used for analogue TV networks - and the 2.6GHz frequency bands so that they can be used for 4G mobile phones were effectively put on hold before the UK general election and may not be a priority for the incoming UK government.
The could cause problems for previous stated aim of minimum broadband speeds of 2Mbps available to everyone in the UK by 2012....