LTE Broadband
High speed broadband has been on the cards for years but unless you’re in a city, 8Mb is something you only see in the adverts.
The reality is that even if we did have 8Mb speeds, they’d be way behind the Japanese who boast standard broadband speeds of 20Mb and planned speeds of 50Mb.
LTE Broadband Explained
LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and it is likely to produce 100Mbps broadband connections. This would allow you to download movie files of 500MB in about 3 minutes – how does that compare to your current download speeds?
LTE Broadband Providers
People currently signed-up to LTE technology include AT&T, KDDI, France Telecom, Vodafone and T-Mobile. Before you read that list again, you are right that it didn’t include BT. But don’t worry as there are plenty of other UK broadband providers willing to compete with BT, including mobile phone operators so LTE Mobile Broadband should be reality too.
GSMA, who represent 24 of the world’s largest phone operators, have officially endorsed LTE so that will help move things along.
LTE Broadband Availability
The first LTE Broadband network will be tested towards the end of 2009, and roll-out will quickly follow in the US and Japan in 2010. Europe and UK will follow soon after that, so we should see LTE Broadband in the UK in 2010.
Compare LTE Broadband Packages
Coming soon, a full check on all UK LTE Broadband providers, their availability, packages, deals and of course, speed tests.
For more info on the next generation broadband services, visit the LTE Broadband website.
