Right now, there is about 4 times as much radio spectrum available as there was in 2007, before the iPhone debuted in Australia, and before mobile broadband became a widespread phenomenon. But we use about 30 times as much mobile data as we did back then – and that’s increasing rapidly.
The 700Mhz band will be auctioned off November 2012, with known network operators – Telstra, Optus and Vodafone having already expressed their intention to compete, with Google a possible dark horse contender (Google has been getting into the telecoms game, deploying a Fibre-T0-The-Premises network in Kansas City).
The 700Mhz band, previously used for analogue TV transmission, is considered something of a prime candidate for data transfer- it provides the best compromise between throughput per-second and propagation (strength of signal over distance) currently available to RF engineers. Anything lower dips into frequencies used for emergency services.
But the 700Mhz band won't be operational until 2015 at the earliest; it will still reach capacity eventually, and we're short of spectrum right now.
Read more at Broadband News
See also the Ngara technology developed by CSIRO
And this white paper called 'Super Wifi' found at Carlsson Wireless
The 700Mhz band will be auctioned off November 2012, with known network operators – Telstra, Optus and Vodafone having already expressed their intention to compete, with Google a possible dark horse contender (Google has been getting into the telecoms game, deploying a Fibre-T0-The-Premises network in Kansas City).
The 700Mhz band, previously used for analogue TV transmission, is considered something of a prime candidate for data transfer- it provides the best compromise between throughput per-second and propagation (strength of signal over distance) currently available to RF engineers. Anything lower dips into frequencies used for emergency services.
But the 700Mhz band won't be operational until 2015 at the earliest; it will still reach capacity eventually, and we're short of spectrum right now.
Read more at Broadband News
See also the Ngara technology developed by CSIRO
And this white paper called 'Super Wifi' found at Carlsson Wireless
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