Ofcom UK Make 700MHz TV Spectrum Band Available for Mobile Broadband

As widely expected Ofcom has today announced a decision to make radio spectrum in the 700MHz band, which is currently used for Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) channels, available for use via future Mobile Broadband (4G, 5G) services by the start of 2022. Get ready to re-tune your TV or set-top-box.

EE and O2 are now serving 4G inside the Channel Tunnel

Ericsson & IBM: The Many Phases of 5G

Ericsson said Monday morning that it is going to work with IBM on antenna technology that is expected to eventually become part of the 5G next-generation wireless specification.

Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) and IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) specifically plan to work on the development of phased-array antennas. This is an antenna array in which the signals of the separate elements are phase-shifted to create a very directional signal. For the end user, this should help to achieve faster downloads and can be delivered by vendors and operators via significantly smaller radios

Telstra, Ericsson and Qualcomm Achieve 450 Mbps on Commercial E2E LTE Solution
Published on: 2nd Dec 2014

Ericsson says that it has completed the commercialization milestone for the end to end LTE A Carrier Aggregation solution capable of supporting data speeds up to 450Mbps.

LTE-A Carrier Aggregation enables operators to use spectrum more efficiently to deliver better user experience to customers wherever they are in their networks.

The demonstration utilized 60 MHz of spectrum, with three 20 MHz LTE carriers in Band 3 (1800 MHz), Band 7 (2600 MHz) and Band 28 (APT 700 MHz) respectively. The successful utilization of Band 28 is significant as this band is gaining momentum as a global LTE band.

Qualcomm Category 9 LTE-A modem and Ericsson LTE software (Networks Software 14B) and hardware supporting the company's RBS 6000 family of base stations drove the results.