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Originally Posted by thenry
Was 3g infrared nonsense?
I remember when south Korea had 100meg+ on the railway while we lagged behind. Embarrassing really. The strides forward need to continue in this country.
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No, 3G was cellular radio telephone, exactly the same as what you have now, just operating on a lower radio frequency so not as much bandwidth for data. More data throughput than 2G, less than 4G. The problem wasn’t the technology, which was as good as it got at the time, the problem was the networks bid so much to get the rights to own the radio frequencies they needed, they didn’t have enough money left to actually build the network fully. And the UK government (New Labour under Blair and Brown at the time) were complicit - they lowered the network coverage requirement precisely because they knew it would make the auction more valuable.