900MHz 3G Broadband switched on by O2

One of the five leading mobile network operators of the United Kingdom, O2 has reportedly turned on a fresh superfast mobile broadband service in the United Kingdom that reuses the 900 MHz spectrum of the company,which was licence for 2G services previously.

Ofcom the telecommunications watchdog of the United Kingdom has back in January granted permisson for the operators to refarm the frequency. Nevertheless, this has been a controversial move in certain respects for it at present tend to give Vodafone and O2 an advantage over the rivals including 3 UK due to the spectrum chunk already held by them.

Meanwhile, O2 has hardly wasted time in turning on what the firm has dubbed as its fresh 3G 900 network that would offer superior mobile broadband performance in those key cities where its activation has taken place.

The cities where that mobile network operator has switched on its 3G 900 network service include London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. If the claims of the company can be taken into account more cities would be following suit in the coming months.

The advantage for the mobile broadband customers of O2 here are; an increase of 50 per cent in network capacity and downloads that are faster up to a third, while the disadvantage is that th ecustomers need a smartphone compatible with the 900MHz frequency (such as iPhone 4) for benefiting from it.