What is the spectrum bandwidth of B3 LTE?

[evantkh]

Does anyone in B3 area know/can check?

[adamtemp64]

But remember that the more masts an operator has the larger the capacity for subscribers. old 2012 data here http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/sitefinder/sitefinder-dataset/

The key question is the backhaul capacity as this is where the real bottleneck will be.

[evantkh]

but I think the backhaul capacity may not be that important as long as it is large enough for fixed broadband traffic. which also likely enough for mobile communications.

I can see O2 has a lot of masts, but the spectrum is also a very important factor.

[adamtemp64]

This thread is again going far to in depth for a customer to customer help community

All the facts etc are on the ofcom site http://media.ofcom.org.uk/facts/ and other places on the ofcom site if you dig around but there are nearly 4 times as many mobile customers than fixed broadband connections. Backhaul data is the most important factor.

Remember that people that are out and about are not using the home broadband connection hence the rapid rise in mobile data usage. 

Localisation of masts will give a greater user experience as long as the backhaul is up to the job.

[evantkh]

As I know number of connections does not mean more bandwidth, or I may have misunderstanding on browsing habits in UK because I don't know whether large file transmissions are often even on fixed broadband in UK.

[jonsie]

You don't do simple do you @evantkh? Methinks you are trying to baffle us with technical questions

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

You don't do simple do you @evantkh? Methinks you are trying to baffle us with technical questions

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Baffled?....Nah....

[jonsie]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@jonsie wrote:

You don't do simple do you @evantkh? Methinks you are trying to baffle us with technical questions

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Baffled?....Nah....

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I switch my phone on and see 4G I'm happy...

[Cleoriff]

To be honest I have never found a lot of difference between O2's 3G and 4G .....both work well for me...

[evantkh]

I think it is the problem with the contention ratio. In my home country it is never specified and a 1000M broadband service often has an actual speed of about 5xx Mbps at peak hours and a 100M broadband providing 24 hour full speed with 80% guarantee in T&C.

[evantkh]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

To be honest I have never found a lot of difference between O2's 3G and 4G .....both work well for me...

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Yes, you don't get a problem in the final service. What I mean is if O2 doesn't do compression to anyone.