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Several major UK telecoms operators are reported to be bidding on contracts that will see 16 out of London’s 33 boroughs all deploying a new free wireless internet (wifi) service to local residents and visitors, which could also be used to help ease the strain on Mobile Broadband operators.
The European Commission (EC) has today committed £43 million (€50m) to help research future 5G (5th Generation) based Mobile Broadband technologies for launch by 2020, which could one day deliver peak service speeds of up to 10Gbps or possibly even 100Gbps (Gigabits per second).
The Surrey County Council (SCC) and BT have detailed the first phase of their part-publicly-funded £33m contract to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP services available to “nearly” 100% of local premises by the end of 2014.
Yorkshire-based ISP CLANNET has, “due to popular demand“, expanded its community wireless broadband network into the small civil parish villages of Laceby in North East Lincolnshire and Kirby Sigston in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire (England).
Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has suggested that internet access solutions which attract a low marginal cost, such as Mobile Broadband, Satellite and WiFi, are now likely to play a bigger then expected part in the UK and Europe’s strategy for expanding broadband coverage into rural areas.