LTE Technology Enjoy the Support of the UK Government
Last week, Lord Stephen Carter, the communication and technology minister of the UK had paid a visit to the Swindon technology research laboratory of Motorola UK. He obviously must have had a deep look into the firm’s testing facility, to come into a conclusion on the progress, as well as the scope of the LTE network undertaken by the mobile phone giant.
Lord Carter’s purpose of the visit to the research laboratory of Motorola is very much apparent from the government’s statement that the UK’s securing a place in the global innovation’s forefront, as well as turning out a vanguard in terms of quality and investment in communication and technology segment, largely depends on the new LTE technology.
The government figures state that about 20 percent of the users engage mobile devices to get connected to the internet. This number can never come down; rather is likely to grow with improvement in the relevant technologies. The government also expects the LTE technology to start yielding prolifically from 2010 or at the most, from early 2011.
It is also worth pondering over the words of Lord Carter that the government’s proposal in the Digital Britain interim report of a universal broadband service that can be realised by a combination of wired and wireless and fixed and mobile networks are still very much live.
He also praised the attempts of Motorola by stating that their researches at Swindon were not only significant in terms of innovation, inward investment as well as development of service, but also displayed the capability to extend a vital step towards broadband coverage stretching to Britain’s remotest areas.
Moreover, once when asked about the danger of monopoly in the superfast broadband segment posed by BT broadband UK, after its winning the government’s nod to go ahead with its price fixations for its rivals as well, in terms of accessing its fibre optic lines due for functioning in 2012, Ofcom had stressed on its great expectations over mobile broadband technology to counter the Fibre monopoly.
