Come next-gen broadband and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for dial-up now. As well as Jimmy Carr, the Wernham Hogg Paper Company and that John Betjeman poem, Slough can now count high speed mobile broadband among Things It’s Famous For.
O2, whose UK headquarters are in the Berkshire town, has distributed next-gen LTE dongles to test out their new high speed mobile network. LTE, short for Long Term Evolution technology, is looking set to replace 3G as the next high speed mobile broadband technology.
A piece in today’s Telegraph states that the LTE dongles given out in the O2 trial are theoretically capable of providing top speeds of 150Mbps.
This could mean that super-fast speeds could be rolled out without the need for the expensive and time consuming installation of a nationwide fibre network.
Part of the Digital Britain report mentioned that future solutions for Broadband Britain (2Mbps speeds in every home by 2012) would involve a mixture of traditional physical connections (phone lines and cable) and wireless solutions.
LTE ought to allow for all sorts of mobile broadband goodness such as seamless streaming of HD videos, downloads of huge playlists, online mobile gaming… everything that a fast fixed-line connection ought to allow for.
There’s some concern that it will interfere with digital TV broadcasts as it uses the same spectrum (800Mhz). Hopefully teething problems such as this can be ironed out during these trials as this is pretty exciting stuff.
Posted by Tom on December 15th 2009 in Broadband, Mobile Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, O2 Broadband
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