Mobile broadband could rival landline service (29/01/2010)

With telecommunications frequencies being freed up by the digital switchover, 4G mobile broadband systems could grow to rival traditional broadband networks, according to an industry expert.

Speeds that could be easily achieved on wireless internet mobile broadband access could easily challenge the fibre-optics releases that are currently being discussed, claimed Dr Chris Doyle, senior research fellow at the Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.

Speaking at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar: Progress of the Digital Switchover & Next Steps for the Digital Dividend Review, he said: "I think is the next stage of [mobile broadband services], 4G [and] long-term evolution. That's come on leaps and bounds from the original dot-com discussions on use of this radio spectrum.

"What this will offer is the opportunity to deliver very fast broadband services over wireless systems using mobile telecommunications infrastructure, possibly up to 100 megabit per second download speeds and possibly in the region of 50 megabit upload speeds."

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