{"id":7314,"date":"2014-08-01T07:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2014-08-02T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:58:22","slug":"ee-confirms-uk-4g-rollout-delay-blames-threat-licence-fee-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/ee-confirms-uk-4g-rollout-delay-blames-threat-licence-fee-hike.html","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE EE Confirm UK 4G Rollout Delay &#8211; Blames Ofcom Licence Fee Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (Everything Everywhere) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that their new &#8220;<em>superfast<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> (LTE at 1800MHz, 800MHz and 2.6GHz) based Mobile Broadband network will not reach its originally predicted UK coverage target of 98% (population) by the end of 2014 and will instead fall short at 90%.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Mobile Network Operator<\/strong> (MNO) caused a storm in 2012 by becoming the first UK provider (excluding UK Broadband Ltd.) to begin rolling out a national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> network using <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/longtermevolution\">Long Term Evolution<\/a><\/strong> (LTE) technology in the 1800MHz band. By comparison most of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>&#8217;s rivals were forced to wait for the completion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> spectrum auction (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/03\/ofcom-uk-releases-4g-spectrum-to-the-five-winning-auction-bidders.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and thus many of their networks didn&#8217;t go live until 8-12 months later.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage was significant and crucially enabled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> to aim for 98% of the UK population to be covered by the end of 2014, which was several years ahead of the Government&#8217;s own 2017 target. Meanwhile EE&#8217;s rivals, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>, were forced to set a similar target for the end of 2015, due to their late starts.<\/p>\n<p>But since the start of this year, when their 4G network coverage stood at 70% of the population, progress has appeared to slow and over the past 7 months they&#8217;ve only managed to push the figure out to 73%. EE blames the significantly slower pace on the Government and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s threat of a massive licence fee hike.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>A Spokesperson for EE told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Late last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> proposed to significantly increase the Annual Licence Fee for operators&#8217; spectrum holdings &#8211; our own increase stands to be as much as \u00a387 million per year. Based on this and the impact it has on investment, we&#8217;ve revised our 2014 coverage target to 90 per cent. The rollout will continue in the coming years, and we&#8217;re still targeting 98% coverage as soon as possible<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new fee (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/ofcom-re-examine-huge-uk-mobile-operator-licence-fee-hike.html\" target=\"_blank\">details here<\/a>), which has widely been linked to the outcome of Ofcom&#8217;s 4G auction (i.e. the Government didn&#8217;t get as much money from that as they wanted, so this could be another way to plug the proverbial hole), reflects the <strong>900MHz<\/strong> and <strong>1800MHz<\/strong> bands and is several times higher than EE&#8217;s current payment. Naturally the EE and other operators aren&#8217;t very happy about it all.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime it looks as if EE has deliberately slowed their roll-out in an effort to put pressure on the Government (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> have warned of a similar slowdown). But even at this reduced pace the Government&#8217;s original target to reach 98% by 2017 (at the latest) is probably still safe, not least because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> has the crucial <strong>coverage obligation lot<\/strong> for 800MHz and this requires them to meet the official target (note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> can be used for this).<\/p>\n<p>As we revealed in June EE has also delayed the commercial launch of their <strong>300Mbps<\/strong> <strong>LTE-A<\/strong> 4G service until 2015 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/06\/ee-delay-uk-launch-300mbps-4g-mobile-broadband-service-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), although this probably has more to do with the lack of hardware support than Ofcom&#8217;s licence fee hike. Never the less there are only five months left of 2014 and it will take a huge surge in development for EE to reach even 90% by the end of 2014 (they have the capacity to do it if they want).<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 10:42am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EE has asked us to reflect that the comment they gave above, which arrived late yesterday afternoon in our inbox and thus before Ofcom&#8217;s announcement this morning, is not to be taken as their response to this morning\u2019s newly revised licence fee change (they haven&#8217;t officially commented on the regulators adjusted proposals yet).<\/p>\n<p>In other words it sounds as if the comment they gave to us was more a reflection of the first proposal than todays, despite the stated pricing appearing to be very similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator EE (Everything Everywhere) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that their new &#8220;superfast&#8221; 4G (LTE at 1800MHz, 800MHz and 2.6GHz) based Mobile Broadband network will not reach its originally predicted UK coverage target of 98% (population) by the end of 2014 and will instead fall short at 90%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,405,60,36],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-ofcom-regulation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPDATE EE Confirm UK 4G Rollout Delay - Blames Ofcom Licence Fee Hike - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mobile operator EE (Everything Everywhere) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that their new &quot;superfast&quot; 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