LTE yet? when? who?

[tux]

Originally Posted by andy

It will be a question of producing devices with added frequencies, rather than phone manufacturers hoping for new allocations to help them.

TV in the UK is in the process of switching from analogue to digital - several million people on the London area in the next couple of weeks, and about 3/4 of the country so far - and afterwards 800 MHz upwards will become available for 4g.

But only TV channels 63 to 68 are being discontinued here, and ch 62 is centred at 802 MHz, so no prospect of seeing 700 to 800 MHz for phone use.

I don't know what situations exist in other countries, but I imagine things will eventually be similar across Europe.

In Italy the situation is far more complicated, as all the channels from 21-60 (and 61-69 in most regions, with no other frequencies available) are assigned to TV broadcasters. For example, in Milan this is the situation: OTG TV
As you can see, the channels are all assigned to TV broadcasters.

TVs broadcasting on channels 61-69 must free these frequencies by 31/12/2012, and will receive only a compensation, not other frequencies.

And there is a really high risk of interferences between LTE and DTT due to the occupation of all the frequencies.

Yes, italian DTT is like a jungle, and it will be more complex, with stupid associations who represent the 600-something local TVs making recourses over recourses to stop italian digital switch-off and threatening not to free 61-69 channels... seems like we'll never have 800MHz LTE.