Nevertheless, the deployment of the HSPA+ technology in the country, according to the research agency, is only an interim step until the rollout of the superfast next generation LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband network rollout. The LTE is expected to deliver without bottlenecks, mobile broadband speeds of up to 150Mbps. At present the prominent mobile broadband platform is HSPA.

The research agency further claimed that the mobile broadband serviceproviders in the UK were feeling the load of an increased user-base. It estimates that the traffic of mobile data users can increase by up to twenty five fold by the year 2012.

According to the spokesperson of Informa, Dimitris Mavarkis, the mobile broadband operators in the developed markets in the United States of America and the United Kingdom were beginning to saturate, which was evident in the fact that numerous bottlenecks were found in data-centric regions such as New York and London.

Mavarkis also boded that LTE, which was the next generation technology of mobile broadband would ease the strain on the networks.

This company based in the United Kingdom has been funded by Intel. The co-owner of the mobile broadband service company is the Daisy Group, and the firm already provides the businesses in Warwick, Manchester and Milton Keynes with fixed WiMAX services. It is quite remarkable that these services provide a cheaper alternative for SDSL connections.

The nod from the communications watchdog is perceived to enable the company offer a special WiMAX version that allows its customers to move around, even while enjoying seamless broadband internetconnection.

Mike Read, the chief executive of Freedom4 revealed in a statement on Wednesday that the firm was currently blessed with both technical capability and spectrum position to rollout a network with services platform, perfectly suiting the mobile and fixed mobile broadband internet wireless access competition market that was rapidly expanding .

WiMAX mobile version is considered by many as a potential competitor to Long Term Evolution technology (LTE), which in its turn is regarded as the latest upgrade to 3G technology. Here , the availability of the 2.6GHz spectrum is highly significant since it could help in extending service over greater distances, although the 3.6GHz spectrum is also good for mobile WiMAX service rollout.

In this context, Freedom4′s chief operating officer Graham Currier’s view that the company was maintaining enthusiasm regarding the auction process of the 2.6GHz spectrum, emerges quiet significant.

This was revealed by the mobile communications company Motorola’s European sales vice-president, Steve McCaffrey. According to his claims, both the mobile broadband technology platforms had a robust future, as they would be needed to correct access problems where superfast fibre broadband could not be provided to particular businesses and homes.

He had stated this while talking to the technology-based website, Silicon Republic.com. As a matter of fact, he had commented that Motorola alone was contracted to deploy numerous WiMAX base-stations in the near future. He added that significant bandwidth would be demanded by the future’s broadband-based applications.

McCaffrey concluded saying that the Millenials, the digital natives of the present that at all times lived online, on the move or at home through the latest wireless gadgets, had a gargantuan appetite for applications and broadband.

O2, the popular mobile broadband provider operating in the United Kingdom had only earlier this month, announced its plans to trial in the country from the beginning of next year, Long Term Evolution mobile broadband technology.

Ericsson puts worth the ongoing dispute over the 900MHz radio spectrum as the reason for the delay in the LTE rollout that is expected to hit the UK. The 900MHz spectrum is currently owned by O2 and Vodafone, and is understood that at least an year will be required for the government to effectuate a redistribution. This fact has been cited by Ericsson as the reason for its difficulty in availing the technology for another three years.

The deployment of the technology over the existing infrastructure, according to the mobile phone and technology firm, would only help in delivering one fourth of the 150 Mbps maximum theoretical speed credited to the technology. However, the technology can still provide a speed of up to ten times the 3.6 Mbps speed provided by existing mobile broadband technology.

The spread of the news has invited widespread criticism from different sectors of the country. Many people are of the viewpoint that it was a shame that the country was falling behind in the rollout of the 4G technology, as China and USA were rolling out services relevant to this technology by the end of this year.

Another significant conclusion come to from the studies was that the 900MHz spectrum awaiting the digital switchover was ideally suited to the mobile broadband services. The research also added that subscriptions to mobile broadband service across the Europe had grown rapidly that it is expected to touch the 100 million mark by 2014, since the introduction of 3G across the continent.

Analyst at Pyramid Research, Andrei Tchadliev has suggested that prices were lowered and usage allowances were expanded in the relevant market owing to the prevalence of a healthy competition, although it has also pushed the network capacities to the maximum. He added that the refarming of the spectrum was one of the most critical regulatory revolutions to have affected the industry in the last twenty years.

Tchadliev also expressed his concern that those networks who currently possessed the 900MHz spectrum assets, saw refarming as a threat to their network quality as well as competitive advantage. The findings of the agency are all the more significant in the circumstances as the proposal for the next generation broadband services rollout was very much on the cards, which however largely depended on the co-operation from the existing spectrum-holders.