Eyes on the prize: Spectrum auction to pave the way for UK’s 5G mobile future
Oct26
UK telecom regulator Ofcom has announced that it will auction additional mobile spectrum in a bid to provide enough capacity for user’s insatiable data appetite. The auction is planned for early next year and includes two bands – 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz – that are particularly well suited for high-speed data services as they can support large amounts of data. Providing enough capacity will be the key to ensuring increasingly fast mobile speeds as technology moves closer to anything termed ‘5G’. “There will not be a cap on the amounts bidders can buy. Ofcom believes that any cap could prevent a…
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