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Apparently, 4G is on it's way.

SO powerful you can beam a whole human being over mobile broadband in 174.6 seconds. That is only 87 times slower than Star Trek.
or, put another way, a whole film in the counting of el-e-phant just 3 times.

Terrific.

Apparently, (whoops, that's two of those), at the moment it's frying digital TV reception to the point when we'll all need "blockers".

Also, if you live near enough a mast, your house will be shaking very gently with microwaves. Enough to defrost some chicken?

It's necessary, of course. It will add £7.5bn to the economy.

(Who works this stuff out?).... New traffic lights at the end of my road are saving local people £75 million per year???

Cool,

but a) let's not justify everything with made up fag packet maths and b) is it safe? I remember worrying about 1G, if that ever existed.
 
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Sorry, got it now.
Captain Kirk is parked at the end of your road and is turning elephants into chickens using nothing but a microwave and a fag packet which cost someone £7.50 whilst watching digital tv on a frying pan?
 
bobmac said:
Sorry, got it now.
Captain Kirk is parked at the end of your road and is turning elephants into chickens using nothing but a microwave and a fag packet which cost someone £7.50 whilst watching digital tv on a frying pan?
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Close. Digital frying pan and microwaves frying elephants.
 
SwingSlow said:
But will it let me make phone calls without losing the signal at Shenfield station?
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I "asked Jeeves" and he says.

"Shenfield is a major station located in Shenfield in the borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It lies on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) and links Liverpool Street station in the City of London to places in the East of England. It was first opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 29 March 1843 on the extension from Brentwood to Colchester. It is expected to be the first place in Europe to send a human over a teleportation device via the imminent 4G network. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called dematerialization), then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter (rematerialization). "

Looking good for you. You might even be able to make a phone call.
 
Whilst I was doing the research for my latest toy, I thought I read that although the US has (or will soon have) 4G, we cannot have it because something (freeview?) already uses the frequencies that it would need to work on.
 
Weren't some people in the states complaining that 4G is eating their battery life at a stupendous rate?

It'll be interesting to see what 'fair use' policies the networks utilise and if it really will be a fair two way street and prevent kids running up four figure phone bills by downloading so much data on uncapped allowances & entitlements.
 
Like others we don't even have decent 3G in my area never mind 4G. I don't like the reports of how it will interefer with digital TV broadcasts though.
 
palindromicbob said:
Like others we don't even have decent 3G in my area never mind 4G.
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It's true isn't it. My missus has moved up to an iphone (on orange) and the reception is patchy. That may just be orange of course.

I remember a family member signing up to an O2 2-year deal only to discover there was no reception at all in his village.

Did he get out of the deal, did they accept their idea of "coverage" was inaccurate?

Hell no.
 
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