The mobile network O2 has proposed contrast a next-generation mobile information service in London.
The 9 month hearing will engage hundreds of consumers and businesses using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network opposite tools of the city.
O2 says its LTE downloads will be many times faster than those over 3G.
The headlines comes a fortnight after MPs urged O2 and other operators to end fighting over how 4G airwaves should be common out.
The examination is an prolongation of O2's LTE trials in Slough, west of the capital, that began in 2009.
Participants will be since broadband dongles for their computers permitting them access to the 2.6GHz spectrum. The rope was historically used by equivalent term radio signals that are being switched off in foster of digital broadcasts.
Users are being betrothed download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second (Mbps), nonetheless O2 says the network can conceptually give information 3 times faster.
Once the network is rolled out opposite the UK the definite says speeds are more expected to median 10-15Mbps.
By more aged telecoms watchdog Ofcom mentioned in May that the UK's median 3G download speed was 1.5Mbps.
O2 describes the service as being 4G. However, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) defines LTE as being 3.9G since it falls partial of a gigabit per second transfers.
"Today's launch of the UK's initial 4G London hearing network demonstrates our undertaking to delivering 4G to our customers at the beginning opportunity," mentioned Ronan Dunne, arch senior manager of Telefonica UK that runs O2.
"The work you are carrying out right away will lay the foundations for our blurb 4G network when it launches in the UK."
O2 mentioned it expects more than 1,000 people to take part. That creates the assessment bigger than a well-defined LTE hearing being carried out by Everything Everywhere and BT in Cornwall involving 200 residents.
Ofcom skeleton to grip an auction is to LTE radio spectrum towards the end of 2012. However, because the spectrum will not turn giveaway until 2013 it will be a few time after that before the services may be offering on a blurb basis.
That puts the UK at the back other countries inclusive Sweden, South Korea, Germany and the US that have already begun their rollouts.
Earlier this month the Commons Culture, Media and Sport choose cabinet mentioned it was worried that disagreements amid the UK's mobile network operators had appeared to have delayed the auction's process.
O2 and Vodafone are melancholy authorised action if Ofcom allows Three to purchase segment of the LTE spectrum at a minimum price. Ofcom wants to make sure there is contest in the sector, but O2 and Vodafone affirm the pierce amounts to state aid.
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