Wireless consultancy Real Wireless says the UK is is likely to suffer a spectrum crunch in 2020 unless more bandwidth is made available for mobile and WiFi services.
Around 300MHz more cellular spectrum and 350MHz more WiFi spectrum is required, according to the company.
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A lighter iPad for light-fingered Apple thieves?
Mark Bridge writes:
No prizes for guessing which two mobile tech stories grabbed most of the headlines last week. Tuesday morning saw Nokia’s much-rumoured tablet and phablet launches, with a Windows RT device and two 6-inch smartphones joining the company’s product portfolio.
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Hotspots get hotter as dongles drop off
Ofcom’s annual Infrastructure Report update shows UK WiFi hotspot usage growing at a faster rate than mobile data.
It says the number of public WiFi hotspots across the UK has more than doubled in the past 12 months from 16,000 to 34,000. At the same time, the amount of data being sent or received by consumers using these hotspots has almost trebled.
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Ofcom has announced the organisations that’ll take part in its trial of ‘white space’ wireless technology. The so-called ‘white spaces’ are temporarily unused gaps in the digital terrestrial TV spectrum.
Technology using these spaces won’t need a licence but will been to check that the frequency is unused before starting transmission.
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Podcast - 25th September 2013
There are big changes on the horizon at BlackBerry. We talk about the company's potential future and also look at the recent tablet announcements from Microsoft and Tesco... plus the rest of the week's mobile news.
There's also a special report from IAB2013 about the sometimes awkward relationship between mobile devices and the television industry.
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