SuperFast 4G Mobile BroadBand Arrives In Cornwall

A trial has been launched in the Caradon Hill area of Cornwall that is aimed at bringing superfast mobile broadband to the rescue of many rural internet users if tests prove successful.

Clear Mobitel, the company carrying out the trial, is using Long Term Evolution or LTE technology to do their tests. Following the switch from analogue TV to digital in the Caradon Hill area, where there is already a television transmitter mast, the company is using the spare airwave spectrum, which has become available as a consequence.

As a result, Clear Mobitel is hoping that their trialling will be able to deliver much faster 4G mobile broadband services, which could be a dream come true for rural communities used to poor or non-existent broadband speeds. While tests with LTE have revealed potential speeds to a single user of 150Mb it is thought that if you’re out in the sticks then speeds of around 12Mb to 15Mb might eventually be a realistic proposition.

A press announcement from the company has stated: "Clear Mobitel has made a very important announcement today about the UK’s first consumer trial of 4G LTE technology in Cornwall. This marks another significant milestone in the work Clear Mobitel is engaged in to find innovative solutions to answering the question as to how to provide commercially viable high speed broadband services to semi rural and deep rural consumers."

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Veritee July 29, 2010 - 09:57

About time, I hope it comes to me!!

I live very rurally on a smallholding near the Carmenellis Moor where their are several phone masks and in view of Four lanes TV mask and get excellent digital TV and good mobile phone reception.

But while we are lucky enough to at least be on Broadband ( as we are on the Constantine exchange which is broadband enabled but half the village and area is on another exchange and can't get Broadband at all)

Our speeds though are abysmal and the ASDL signal drops out regularly.

Which I am told is due to line noise between us and the exchange caused by us being at the limit of where Broadband can be reliably supplied and because there are so many 'bridges' on the line due to repairs?

Which is very inconvenient to me as I run a small business where I reply on online bookings and run a charity I founded for which I maintain and write the web sites and need to up load files and maintain our support forum online.

I used to do freelance web design but find my speeds are not good enough for the media rich websites that people now want, so I went out of business.

A few years ago a firm talked about bringing this technology to our local masts but never did.

I hope this experiment works and we can get Broadband at a reasonable speed one day

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