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Ofcom (5G mmWave) Statement

The Wee Bear

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I wonder how this will all pan out folks. :unsure:
Maybe treat myself to a new tent for that special spot in Glasgow. 😊
(When i get my new mmWave compatible phone) :rolleyes:
Are there any MMW compatible handsets available in the uk already?
 
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S23 Ultra is in the states apparently, perhaps they could just enable it for us lot here, that would be nice.

We'll probably be at the S35 Ultra by the time it's actually operational and all phones will have it by then anyway. :rolleyes: 😊
 
Full Ofcom Statement (PDF)
I wonder how this will all pan out folks. :unsure:
Maybe treat myself to a new tent for that special spot in Glasgow. 😊
(When i get my new mmWave compatible phone) :rolleyes:
Your s23 ultra does doesn't it ?
With 5G becoming the de-facto cellular connectivity standard across most parts of the U.S., all devices in the Galaxy S23 lineup, including the vanilla Galaxy S23, mid-tier S23+, and flagship S23 Ultra, support sub-6 and mmWave 5G.
 
Oh I see it's stateside . Will have 6g by the time this gets here lol
 
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TBH, given the really poor building penetration of mm bands, plus them being even more direct line of sight than even the high frequency bands we have at the moment, I'm not sure they are going to give that big an overall boost.

Probably enhance service a bit in urban areas, as there will be a lot of reflected signals, but outside of towns and cities the chances are that mm wave will either not get rolled out or won't offer any useful benefit. The pattern we see around here is that B20 and B8 provide the most reliable coverage and B3 and above the least reliable. Going to mm band won't improve things, what we need is more bandwidth in the lower frequency bands.

Getting rid of terrestrial TV would get my vote. Would free up a chunk of bandwidth that's close to B20 and B8.
 
How many people still rely wholly on terrestrial TV? It effectively disappeared from many rural areas when the digital switchover happened, years ago. Everyone I know uses satellite now.
 
Did it??

Do you mean those out rural was upsold Freesat or are you trying to say the coverage dissapeared?

Coverage disappeared at our last house (16 miles away from where we now live) and it's the same here. We used to just about get an analogue TV signal from Rowridge at the last house, albeit with a large mast, high gain antenna and masthead amplifier. When the changeover happened I bought a new antenna and masthead amp, but the signal just wasn't good enough.

What was a tolerable amount of noise on an analogue signal was enough to make digital unusable, with constant screen lock ups and drop outs so we switched to satellite. When we moved to this house I didn't even bother trying terrestrial TV, as there are no TV antennas on any of the houses around here, just dishes, as here too the terrestrial TV signal is too poor to use.
 
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Your s23 ultra does doesn't it ?
With 5G becoming the de-facto cellular connectivity standard across most parts of the U.S., all devices in the Galaxy S23 lineup, including the vanilla Galaxy S23, mid-tier S23+, and flagship S23 Ultra, support sub-6 and mmWave 5G.
Only The US versions of the S23 include a mmwave antenna.
Also, only the North American and japanese iPhones include a mmwave antenna. It's omitted elsewhere because it's a $50 part.

Expect to wait a very long time, if ever to get mmwave on handsets in the UK. The Costs involved are simply not worth it for manufacturers when it might only ever be used at places like concerts, if at all.
 
When I become The new Prime Minister first thing I will do is Scrap the DVB-T Service, hardly anybody watch it anymore anyway, don't care about the International TV Access as its all out of date as well.

Once scrapped that's 470Mhz to 700Mhz free'ded up and available add the existing 700, 800, 900Mhz Bands, throw it all together, let's say to 1000mhz, that's well over 500mb of Bandwidth all in the same Place, add the current LTE NR, 256, 512 QAM and some MiMo Trickery and your into some serious Download Speeds all in the rights place, the Upper UHF Bands with decent Range Coverage.
 
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