UK LTE all over the place

This means that 4G services will then operate on the 800MHz spectrum, as well as 2.6GHz and the existing but limited 1800MHz capacity being used by EE (and soon Virgin Mobile too). Next year some or all of the 1800MHz band may be sold to Three, as EE moves to spare space in the 800MHz band. However, some devices, including Apple’s iPhone 5 are not currently able to work on 4G at this frequency, unless a new version of the hardware is released. More at Trusted Reviews.

There may be trouble ahead...

Comments

[Rui Duarte]

Same in Portugal. Vodafone, Optimus and TMN (the main 3) are still negotiating with Apple as the iPhone5 operates on a range that nobody has and need to invest a million on it just to allow iPhones to use the 4G.

Does it compensate? In UK maybe, but in Portugal, among the crisis that gets deeper and deeper I don't think a few hundreds iPhone users out there justify the investment.

That's another blow for the iPhone buyers: expensive, no Siri, no 4G.

[David S.]

I've bought mine with my eyes wide open (on vodafone). I'm not hanging around waiting for 4G which can only be used in London (by me anyway), and will probably be creaking at the seams for the first year.

[Bug Blatter]

Considering it's not even real 4G (some marseketing idiots decided to call it that, thereby setting real 4G back years) I'm thinking I'll just do without.

This country is already behind much of the world in terms of internet access and it's going to get worse.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs: "Can anyone tell me what Ofcom is supposed to do? So why the f*** doesn't it do that?"