Britain to launch high-speed 4G networkBritain is set to launch the superfast 4G service in select cities next week. The country's first 4G network will be launched in London and nine other cities. The 4G system allows smartphones, tablets and laptops to surf the web five times faster than the current 3G network.
Users
will also have to fork out hundreds of pounds for a smartphone that can
use the system, such as Apple's iPhone 5 or Nokia's Lumia 920.
But
the technology is so powerful that it burns through smartphone battery
life, meaning handsets need to be recharged more often.
Customers
who upgrade to 4G packages will pay anything from 36 to 56 pounds a
month based on the amount of data downloads they sign up for, according
to the Mail.
This is some five pounds a month more than what they would have paid under their existing deals for a similar package.
The
4G technology makes it possible to squeeze more data into a smaller
slice of the airwaves, which makes it cheaper to transmit vast amounts
of information compared with 3G. Consequently, 4G actually costs less to
run on a day-to-day basis.
Britain to launch high-speed 4G network
